Qt Apps and GTK Themes, an investigation with partial success

[Lin-Buo-Ren]

@joshirio

never heard of the qt5-gtk-platformtheme package

I did a reverse package search for the libqgtk3.so file mentioned in the following topic:

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

A common request is to allow applications to follow the GTK theme of the host system desktop. While we don’t yet have all the infrastructure in place for arbitrary themes, we do now have one that will automatically handle the default themes of common Linux distributions. This will be sufficient for applications based on GTK 3, and Qt 5 apps using the libqgtk3.so platform theme. I’ve put together a short Snapcraft project that demonstrates how everything fits together: Now for a breakdown o…