To provide a Qt equivalent for whatever Gtk3 theme is chosen, should be a matter of providing a Kantum config and SVG file for this theme. For an example of a Qt app using Kvantum’s Ambiance-like theme, see Cantata This is not 100% perfect, but is much better than the experience provided by QtkStyle It also provides Qt apps with real overlay scrollbars (the only Qt engine that currently does this).
This is a C++ engine, which loads SVG files to draw the widgets. This platform plugin also provides access to the Gtk3 file dialogs.Īs I’ve stated before, the Kvantum theme engine can be used to provide a much better Gtk-like theme for Qt apps. They also use the QGnomePlatform platform plugin - which tries to locate a Qt theme that matches the current Gtk theme (it can use Adwaita-Qt for Adwaita, and Kvantum for others). Again, this had issues where it always drew menu icons for Qt apps.įedora currently use the Adwaita-Qt theme engine - which is a C++ engine specifically mean to mimic Adwaita. For the platform plugin, there was a dbus menu plugin to export a Qt app’s menubar to the global menu bar, etc. This was never that good - arrows in scrollbars were sometimes missing, or not drawn correctly.
This used Gtk2 to paint into pixmaps, which were then drawn where the Qt widgets would be. Previous Ubuntu releases used QGtkStyle for the theme. It also has platform plugins which are used to set the theme to match the current desktop (Gnome, KDE, windows, mac, etc), and also to provide access to the platform’s file dialogs, colour picker, etc. Qt uses theme engines (written in C++) to change the appearance of widgets. Of course, that doesn’t prevent anyone else to contribute as well, we’ll have PR and look at them, as a team. The icon discussion will come as soon as I get a hand on Sam I’m going with to London in a week and half, and we will discuss with our design team to get some inputs and having them contribute as well. I have created some bootstrapping topics to get our first phase move (getting the branches up) while designers can work on the mockups. That way, people who are just interested in seeing how the project progress can see in a concise way the advancement, and people working on the project can take into from this topic, and discuss more quietly on the other one. Thus, we did create a hub subcategory available for reading to everyone, but restricted to writing for the above group (and new contributors coming along). Sam answered by email and I’ll trick him to post here He’s happy starting from his Suru course, as I was expecting, this post has a lot of great suggestions and ideas I suggest (no punt intended :p), that we keep them going on this topic. Maintaining the system and keeping it working.Wire up CI to upload any new commits in master to a ppa so that people can check progress.Preparing the branches (Shell, GTK, icons) for easy rebasing on upstream changes.This is the group who is primarly going to turn the mockups to reality, and will review external contributions plumbing: CI/Project I can give a hand there too. Theme I can give a hand myself as needed )) Of course, I think theme developers will help them in that regard and telling what’s possible and what is not, while we keep all in mind this should respect the ubuntu feeling and color palette. My suggestions, from the names I saw above (please shout if I forgot anyone): designers will create new mockups for the Shell, GDM, and popular applications to represents main interactions and what they look like on the GTK theme. I think from that point the most effective is to create subgroups and start lining up something like a plan. So, rereading the thread, I have collected names of people stepping up, and it looks like we already have very talented and enthusiastic group of people here: United Gnome GTK theme, Pop/Popiance, “Finding Ubuntu” concept, individual designers and developers Also, we contacted Sam for the Suru icon theme who is up to the challenge, I’ll try getting him posting here To reemphasize, we want GNOME Shell and applications looking like ubuntu we don’t want to deviate from GNOME: changing behaviors or paradigms, making it looking like Unity when it’s not, and such.we will still have Ubuntu Dock and indicator extension.Remember for that is only for theming, not for changing any behavior or extensions shipped, meaning: I think we start to have a good list of people wanting to contribute here, it’s awesome! We should divide the needed work in some groups.
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