[Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

Mon Sep 5 18:34:31 CEST 2011

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:08:40AM +0200, Robert Fox wrote:
+> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 00:15 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
+> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Robert Fox wrote:
+> > > Evolution is my main mail client and I can't love without it - but when
+> > > I start it under KDE, the message list pane is always blank.  I think it
+> > > may be a GTK problem but not sure . . .
+> > 
+> > Could you start it from a terminal and see if there is any output? Error
+> > messages, warnings, etc? Further, could you please try and double click
+> > and so on to determine if it is either just pretending to be blank (e.g.
+> > white/white for everything) or really not showing anything?
+> 
+> No errors:
+
+Ok.
+
+> And YES - it appears that it is pretending to be blank (when I click on
+> the blank area, the message preview changes content - so something with
+> fonts or colors maybe . . .
+
+I think KDE has something like a GTK-QT-Engine. It tries to apply the qt
+theme to gtk applications. I'm guessing something is wrong with that.
+Could you try disabling it?
+
+Found some documentation on:
+https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_Look_for_QT_and_GTK_Applications
+
+According to that, you want to go to:
+Control Center (kcontrol) --> Appearance & Themes --> GTK Styles and Fonts
+
+Suggest also pinging on IRC (#mageia-dev on freenode) as that is a bit
+easier than emails.
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+