How to use the system GTK theme via the gtk-common-themes snap

[Lin-Buo-Ren]

I’ve implemented a demonstration snap with some improvements and also uses the desktop-gtk3 remote part:

Lin-Buo-Ren/demo-gtk-common-themes

[Lin-Buo-Ren]

@jamesh @degville Would you mind setting this topic as a wiki?

[degville]

@Lin-Buo-Ren

@jamesh @degville Would you mind setting this topic as a wiki?

This topic is now a wiki. Thanks!

[keshavnrj]

i made a content snap which basically packs qt5 runtime in it (desktop-qt5 dump), i made a consumer app and added slot of gtk-common-themes in it , my app launch just fine but won’t use theme. what’s wrong ?

[jamesh]

It’s a bit hard to tell without more details. Can you tell if the app is running with the libqgtk3.so platform theme plugin?

[keshavnrj]

here is link to seperate thread i have created:

Theme issue with content snap

Hi, i made a content snap here with desktop-qt5 run-time dumped in it here And an app to use the content snap , app running fine the only issue is widget style looks too old like in screenshot below: [Screenshot%20from%202019-08-31%2023-09-48] here is the snapcraft.yaml of app that uses the content snap mentioned above

[knocte]

hey @jamesh , by any chance you know if it would be a lot of work to make this work for gtk2?

[galgalesh]

This is a tutorial for getting system themes working with GTK+ 2 applications: https://snapcraft.io/docs/gtk2-applications

Is this what you are looking for, @knocte?