VLC media player and GTK

By JBK on Wednesday, May 21 2008, 18:48 - VideoLAN - Permalink

As many of you know now, VLC main interface will switch to Qt4 for many reasons that we have already detailed.

Many GNOME users are not pleased because of the differences between the look of Qt applications and native looks of GNOME/GTK application.

Trolltech has made a new QGtkStyle that uses GTK to design the widgets. Then you can have a VLC using Qt that seems exactly like any Gtk application.

1. On Saturday, May 24 2008, 16:41 by Arite

Nice - hopefully that should bridge the Qt4/GTK+ gap.

Arite.

2. On Thursday, July 3 2008, 15:14 by Christoph

This is only a window theme. How about the "File open" dialog? It will still be QT instead of GTK file chooser, right?

3. On Wednesday, July 9 2008, 06:27 by JBK

Yes, file chooser should still be Qt one.

4. On Tuesday, July 29 2008, 04:39 by mumuri

hello, juste a little question, will there be a always on top option ?

5. On Thursday, July 31 2008, 11:25 by JBK

But there is already one, ain't it ?

6. On Thursday, August 7 2008, 17:33 by Anurag Mishra

Hi,
Can you specify how did you build the source, i.e. which option you used?

I have a build of VLC 20080806 and it is still not following GTK themes, instead reverting to cleanlooks theme.

7. On Friday, August 8 2008, 20:37 by JBK

You have to compile QGtkStyle on Google Code.

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