VLC media player and GTK
By JBK on Wednesday, May 21 2008, 18:48 - VideoLAN - Permalink
Switch to Qt4
As many of you know now, VLC main interface will switch to Qt4 for many reasons that we have already detailed.
GTK issues
Many GNOME users are not pleased because of the differences between the look of Qt applications and native looks of GNOME/GTK application.
Solution
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.
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Comments
Nice
- hopefully that should bridge the Qt4/GTK+ gap.
Arite.
This is only a window theme. How about the "File open" dialog? It will still be QT instead of GTK file chooser, right?
Yes, file chooser should still be Qt one.
hello, juste a little question, will there be a always on top option ?
But there is already one, ain't it ?
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.
You have to compile QGtkStyle on Google Code.
I assume QGtkStyle won't work on a default hardy system (that is, without QT 4.4)?
You need Qt4.3 for QGtkStyle.
Installing VLC requires like 50MB (dependencies on QT)? Any chance of a GTK version? I'll stick with something more lightweight for now.
This is the worse argument I have ever seen:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libqtcore4: 2032kB (5150kB unpacked)
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libqtgui4: 4300kB (9616kB unpacked)
Whatever the size I don't want anything QT related polluting my system. So I'll stick with MPlayer or no gui VLC for streaming.
How is Qt different from Gtk? Qt is LGPL now, so what is your great argument about pollution?
It realy pissing me off. I have used VLC with GTK look for years, and I had not ANY problems. Now, when I am making on minimalistic ubuntu distribution, i have to instal qt to run VLC. Oh GOD WHY ?
VLC has never used GTK... wx isn't GTK