Qt4 apps Look and Feel on Gnome
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 