GTK styles in Appreance

[Guest]

I just downloaded and fresh installed Intrepid Alpha 4 over the weekend.

I already have gtk-qt-engines-kde4 installed but when I go to systemsettings -> Appreances I do not see an GTK Styles section on the left column.

When I start systemsettings from the commandline it the following.

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systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " Looking for children in ' "appearance" '
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Emoticons" ' "emoticons.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "emoticons.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Windows" ' "kwindecoration.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "kwindecoration.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Colors" ' "colors.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "colors.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Style" ' "style.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "style.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Splash Screen" ' "ksplashthememgr.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "ksplashthememgr.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Fonts" ' "fonts.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "fonts.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " found module ' "Icons" ' "icons.desktop"
systemsettings(8929) MainWindow::readMenu: " " filename is "icons.desktop"
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
findServiceByDesktopPath: not found
------------------------------------- snip -------------------------------------

As you can see it only finds 7 things under Appreance, and GTK Styles is not one of them.

Thanks in advance, let me know if you have any suggestions and/or what else you need me to try.

[Rog131]

Re: GTK styles in Appreance

Do you have gtk-qt-engine (theme engine using Qt 4 for GTK+ 2.x) installed ?

There is also:
gtk-qt-engine-kde4, Transitional package

This dummy package is provided for a smooth transition from gtk-qt-engine-kde4 to gtk-qt-engine.
It may safely be removed after installation.

Todays upgrade

Log of sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Tue Aug 19 10:39:03 2008

NEW packages
gtk-qt-engine libgp11-0
Upgrading
gnome-keyring gtk-qt-engine-kde4
....

Unpacking gtk-qt-engine (from .../gtk-qt-engine_1%3a1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-qt-engine_1%3a1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/themes/Qt4/gtk-2.0/gtkrc', which is also in package gtk-qt-engine-kde4
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace gtk-qt-engine-kde4 1.1-0ubuntu1 (using .../gtk-qt-engine-kde4_1%3a1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gtk-qt-engine-kde4 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-qt-engine_1%3a1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sudo died with exit status 100

=> There is overlapping

Using force:

Warning

Force or refuse (no-force and refuse mean the same thing) to do some things. things is a comma separated list of things specified below. --force-help displays a message describing them. Things marked with (*) are forced by default.
Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used by experts only. Using them without fully understanding their effects may break your whole system.

I'm not expert but:

:~$ sudo dpkg -i --force-conflicts /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-qt-engine_1%3a1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
[sudo] password for rog:
(Reading database ... 106812 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gtk-qt-engine (from .../gtk-qt-engine_1%3a1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gtk-qt-engine (1:1.1+svn20080816-0ubuntu1) ...

man dpkg

conflicts: Install, even if it conflicts with another package. This is dangerous, for it will usually cause overwriting of some files.

After this:

kcmshell4 --list | grep gtk

kcmgtk4 - Control the style and fonts used by GTK applications

man kcmshell

KCMSHELL(1) tool to start single KDE control modules KCMSHELL(1)

NAME
kcmshell - tool to start single KDE control modules

SYNOPSIS
kcmshell [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] module

DESCRIPTION
kcmshell is a tool to start single KDE control modules.
...
Options:
--list List all possible modules

And now System Settings > Appearance > GTK Styles and Fonts is available.


Note !
Removing of the gtk-qt-engine-kde4 should also help. It is:

..dummy package...It may safely be removed after installation.