Arkham's Eyrie » gnome http://ark.asengard.net/blog Where Doves Kill & Ravens Die. Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:09:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 KDE-like bigger icons for Gnome menu http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/10/23/kde-like-bigger-icons-for-gnome-menu/ http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/10/23/kde-like-bigger-icons-for-gnome-menu/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:55:46 +0000 Arkham http://ark.asengard.net/blog/?p=270 I’ve tried to use some kind of KDE like, bigger icons on my desktop for a while and I realized that it is really a pity to not use the wonderful 32×32 tango icons for the gnome menu also. If you want to try, it’s very simple:

gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0

and put in this line:

gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=32,32"

and restart gnome-panel (maybe you could be more gracious :P):

killall gnome-panel

Here is the outcome:
gnome-menu

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There are so many applications that depend on qt in my system (among others skype, vlc, opera, picard and virtualbox) that I decided to remove all the statically-compiled-against packages and just install the library and normal packages; this gave me also the chance to find a better way to integrate qt apps in a gnome-based desktop environment.

The problems that I noticed were that all the fonts looked really tiny and the overall look of the application was kinda poor, so I took a look at the binaries included in the qt package:

arkham ~  $  pacman -Ql qt | grep bin
qt /usr/bin/
qt /usr/bin/assistant
qt /usr/bin/assistant_adp
qt /usr/bin/designer
qt /usr/bin/linguist
qt /usr/bin/lrelease
qt /usr/bin/lupdate
qt /usr/bin/moc
qt /usr/bin/pixeltool
qt /usr/bin/qcollectiongenerator
qt /usr/bin/qdbus
qt /usr/bin/qdbuscpp2xml
qt /usr/bin/qdbusviewer
qt /usr/bin/qdbusxml2cpp
qt /usr/bin/qhelpconverter
qt /usr/bin/qhelpgenerator
qt /usr/bin/qmake
qt /usr/bin/qt3to4
qt /usr/bin/qtconfig
qt /usr/bin/rcc
qt /usr/bin/uic
qt /usr/bin/uic3

I tried with qtconfig and it solved the fonts problem, but the default styles still looked really bad; luckily, I found a project called QGtkStyle, that lets you use a gtk-rendered qt style, thus giving a native appearence for qt apps running on gnome. To install it, make sure to have qt4.4 and gtk2 installed correctly, then:

svn co "svn://labs.trolltech.com/svn/styles/gtkstyle"
cd gtkstyle/
qmake && make
sudo make install

or

yaourt -S qgtkstyle-svn

Now, from the qtconfig menu you can choose a new style called GTK, and I can assure you that this one looks really nice. Have fun ;)

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su
vi /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop

And replace “Exec=gmplayer %U” with “Exec=gmplayer %F”

:D

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cd
su
rm -i .recently-used*
chattr +i .recently-used.xbel

;)

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