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why never loading the KDE styles with selfbuild QT?

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Sunday, April 4th 2004, 8:41pm

why never loading the KDE styles with selfbuild QT?

I often must build a new QT library on Linux for development reasons. I started KDevelop and set there a new QTDIR environment. My (only QT,not KDE) application compiled and linked fine, but when it starts it never has my KDE style.
The QT library was not loading the KDE-styles libs, although the BUILD_KEY was the same. Unfortunately there are no error or warning messages when I start my application at console. Has anyone build a QT library who was able to load the KDE styles?

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Monday, April 5th 2004, 8:57am

I think your version of Qt does not find the KDE-styles. You can set the directories in which Qt should search for plugins using the tool qtconfig. There you can also set the default style.
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Monday, April 5th 2004, 10:12am

excellent! that was the solution.
the name of the style plugin, is stored at ~/.qt/qtrc, which could be also manipulated with KDE Control Center or the programm "qtconfig".
but as you said, the entry "libraryPath" in the section [3.3] (my new QT lib), didn't include the path to the KDE plugins, which is "/opt/kde3/lib/kde3/plugins"

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Sunday, April 18th 2004, 10:44pm

I'm having a similar problem albeit not on the programming side. I've compiled my own copy of qt-x11-free-3.3.1. When I boot up using that as my copy of Qt I only get a very very poor choice of styles ( 6 I think ), and when loading this page virtually all of the graphics are missing. Is this connected to the fact that I didn't enable the gif option when I configured it?

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Wednesday, April 21st 2004, 10:57pm

Well I've solved my own problems.

1. The lack of Icons/Images on the web page was due to lack of GIF support in Qt.

2. Recompiling kdelibs and installing it (I actually used checkinstall to make a Slackware package) solved the problem with the styles.

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Wednesday, April 21st 2004, 11:00pm

Woops, this was a double post. Sorry!


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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "amos" (Apr 21st 2004, 11:03pm)