VLC media player and GTK

22 May 2008

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.

Screenshots

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Qt4
VLC Media Player

Comments

  1. On 30 May 30300, 4:01 by sc0ttman

    http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/vi…

  2. On 21 May 21210, 11:47 by JBK

    VLC has never used GTK… wx isn’t GTK

  3. On 20 May 20200, 2:49 by Deafboy

    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 ?

  4. On 7 May 7070, 6:22 by JBK

    Wow, that was a clever argument.

    How is Qt different from Gtk? Qt is LGPL now, so what is your great argument about pollution?

  5. On 6 May 6060, 4:03 by tbyte

    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.

  6. On 7 May 7070, 4:07 by JBK

    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)

  7. On 7 May 7070, 4:44 by Anon

    Installing VLC requires like 50MB (dependencies on QT)? Any chance of a GTK version? I’ll stick with something more lightweight for now.

  8. On 22 May 22220, 12:18 by JBK

    You need Qt4.3 for QGtkStyle.

  9. On 21 May 21210, 4:16 by enolive

    I assume QGtkStyle won’t work on a default hardy system (that is, without QT 4.4)?

  10. On 8 May 8080, 8:37 by JBK

    You have to compile QGtkStyle on Google Code.

  11. On 7 May 7070, 5:33 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.

  12. On 31 May 31310, 11:25 by JBK

    But there is already one, ain’t it ?

  13. On 29 May 29290, 4:39 by mumuri

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

  14. On 9 May 9090, 6:27 by JBK

    Yes, file chooser should still be Qt one.

  15. On 3 May 3030, 3:14 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?

  16. On 24 May 24240, 4:41 by Arite

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

    Arite.

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