[PyQt] File Dialogs Not Native In Linux Mint 17.3

[Nick]

Seems as though *The Qt Company* broke
<https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/75> (
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/75) the QT theme system
with Qt v5.7 onwards. Hopefully there will be a Cinnamon patch released in
a month or two to get around a major QT bug.

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 at 10:59 Nick <napperley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't the QT build included with the PyQt Linux wheel?
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 at 05:18 Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:34:54AM +0000, Nick wrote:
>> > Been trying out a ZetCode sample on file dialogs (QFileDialog) using
>> PyQt
>> > 5.7 via pip and a custom build of Python 3.5 in a virtual environment.
>> When
>> > running the sample the file dialog looks way out of place (*UGLY* in a
>> > hugely distracting way). Seems to look and behave like the Qt
>> > implementation, not like the native one. The sample runs on Linux Mint
>> 17.3
>> > using Cinnamon (Gtk 3 based) as the desktop.
>>
>> Your Qt build is most probably missing the GTK+ platform theme plugin,
>> i.e. plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk3.so.
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Shachnev
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