KDE4 Theme for Firefox: Get Rid of the (F)Ugly Look of Firefox under KDE4
Sathya | January 19th, 2009 - 6:29 am
Well I upgraded the KDE installation in my Sabayon system to KDE4 (by default, Sabayon installs KDE 3.5.10) and after logging in, and opening Firefox, the first thing I noticed was the absolutely FUGLY, and yes I MEAN FUGLY look of Firefox. Don’t believe me? Have a look
Thankfully, Firefox’s support for theme and the immense community out there meant I was able to get a fantastic theme, which makes Firefox look like a native KDE4 application (well, almost!).
You can download KDE4 + Firefox 3 theme from here, though do note that it is an experimental add-on and hence you will need a Mozilla account. Its well worth registering though, have a look at Firefox after applying the theme.
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Thanks man! Even I was annoyed of that ugly firefox look in kde.
OR.. You can use GTK-QT and make all the GTK+ apps inherit your QT theme.
Can’t seem find gtk-qt under Gentoo/Sabayon
sathya@SHAMAN ~ $ equo search GTK-QT
>> @@ Searching...
>> #1 Sabayon Linux Official Repository
sathya@SHAMAN ~ $ equo search qt | grep gtk
>> @@ Package: x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt-0.8-r3 branch: 4
>> Name: gtk-engines-qt
>> Download: packages/amd64/3.5/x11-themes:gtk-engines-qt-0.8-r3~0.tbz2
>> ## >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2
>> Homepage: http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk
>> @@ Package: x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt-1.1 branch: 4
>> Name: gtk-engines-qt
>> Download: packages/amd64/4/x11-themes:gtk-engines-qt-1.1~0.tbz2
>> ## x11-libs/gtk+:2
>> Homepage: http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk
>> @@ Package: x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve-0.59.7-r1 branch: 4
>> Name: gtk-engines-qtcurve
>> Download: packages/amd64/3.5/x11-themes:gtk-engines-qtcurve-0.59.7-r1~0.tbz2
>> ## x11-libs/gtk+:2
>> @@ Package: x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap-0.28-r2 branch: 4
>> Name: gtk-engines-qtpixmap
>> Download: packages/amd64/3.5/x11-themes:gtk-engines-qtpixmap-0.28-r2~0.tbz2
>> ## >=x11-libs/gtk+-2
sathya@SHAMAN ~ $
Compile teh sauces >_>
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Hi Sathya,
This is useful for us KDE 4 users. And since I have been using firefox ever since I installed Fedora, I needed this.
As to your query, I do see gtk-engines-qt, that is what you are looking for isn’t it?
Yup, I didn’t notice at first, installed it, **much better**
Sathya, I don’t know how equo works but for portage, I’d used to use eix. It’s a very good tool for searching apps in the repositories. It supports regex and filters too. It supports search overlays too.
well use of .portege is depreciated in Sabayon, equo well i’ll have to have a look at man pages.I’ve been too accustomed to YaST and zypper!
How come you are on Sabayon? Is its Package management good?
Wanted to try out something not openSUSE & which has KDE. yea package management is pretty good
More ways to get rid of the fugly look
http://www.instantfundas.com/2008/08/25-most-beautiful-firefox-themes.html
I installed this theme and found that all the menu bars we looking perfect but the text boxes, rodio buttons, check boxes on the web pages had a thick grey border which looked really odd…
ne idea to remove those borders…
As Mehul & Subbu mentioned, install gtk-engines-qt