[Interest] Another query on GTK platform theme/style

[Dan Allen]

Hi Thiago,

Thanks for the information.

Could you please confirm I've understood it correctly:

1. There's currently no way to achieve a native look and feel using 
Qt5.8 in Ubuntu Unity or Gnome (i.e. GTK3 platform theme and style) with 
or without qtstyleplugins.

2. This is something that will be rectified in a future Qt release.

Apologies for asking so many questions.  I just want to be 100% clear on 
this.


On 17/04/17 18:49, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em segunda-feira, 17 de abril de 2017, às 10:19:25 PDT, Dan Allen escreveu:
>> I'm going around in circles then Sergio.
> No, you're not. I'm the one who got confused. There's a platform theme and a
> widget style. They're not the same thing.
>
>> "So I guess my question is, will a GTK style that is compatible with the
>> default GTK3 platform theme be re-introduced into a future version of Qt
>> such that applications run in Ubuntu Gnome with a native look and feel?
>> Or worse case, will one be added to the qtstyleplugins package?"
>>
>> Thiago stated:
>>
>> The Gtk3 style and platform theme is still part of Qt. It's in qtbase.
>>
>> I don't know who's correct, but I'd appreciate someone clarifying as
>> this is confusing.
> The "gtk3" platform theme is in qtbase. Apparently, the "gtk3" widget style
> isn't.
>
> The commit that removed it said:
>
>      This will allow us to drop gtk2 support from qtbase in future,
>      while still providing the gtk2 style for those who want to use it.
>      
> Ah, no... since the platform theme is still present, the support is still
> present. The reason must be this:
>
>      Also with moving to qtstyleplugins, the code can be simplified
>      because we can directly link to libraries we need, instead of using
>      QLibrary.
>
> Well, seems like you need to get it from qtstyleplugins. Which should be part
> of the Qt release, but isn't. So that needs to be rectified.