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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: style, color and font changes: now or after RC1/beta2?
From:       Christoph Cullmann <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-01-29 14:53:53
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Am Tuesday 29 January 2002 06:48 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Monday 28 January 2002 04:30 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > If Qt applications have no means of adjusting to the KDE settings then
> > > that is a shortcoming of Qt that should be fixed in Qt. Degrading KDE
> > > to overcome that is not the way to go.
> >
> > well, Qt _is_ the underlying toolkit here ...
>
> Yes, so?
>
> > the question is whether or not the KDE apps decide to set their own
> > values despite what qt might do (which seems rediculous to me, since
> > nothing is gained by doing so; and only breaking look/feel consistency
> > for qt-only apps is achieved). another option would be to attempt to keep
> > the qtrc and the KDE style/color/font config entries in sync, but that is
> > probably a fool's errand ...
> >
> > the only "fool proof" mechanism that i can see for achieving style
> > consistency between qt and kde applications is by allowing QApplication
> > to do its thing, and modify those settings using the kde control panels
> > (using KConfig)
>
> I think we should treat Qt just as we treat GTK. Upon start we can write
> out a .qtrc based on the values that we read from our own config files,
> just as we do with a .gtkrc.
>
> KDE applications will continue to read their settings directly from their
> own config files, and Qt-only applications can then rely on .qtrc.
Seems to be a very clean, efficient solution for the problem in my eyes, too.

cu
Christoph

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
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