GTK themes in Qt applications

Qt applications like or  need a little help to use your desktop theme in GNOME.

Setup
The GTK+ style for Qt can be built by setting gtkstyle USE flag for.

Set gtkstyle useflag. To prevent a blocker, make sure the "qt4" flag is unset in cairo:

and rebuild:

Configuration
You might need to reselect the preferred theme for Qt applications using qtconfig (from ):

or just delete the previous configuration files:

Select Default theme to use your system settings or set it to use the gtkstyle explicitly by selecting GTK+ theme.

Tips

 * Individual applications might have their own configuration settings for GUI, e.g. in VLC there is Tools → Preferences setting for this.

Caveats

 * 32bit applications on multilib systems still are unaware of the system's GTK+ theme, probably because is compiled without gtkstyle support