[PyQt] PyQt Digest, Vol 145, Issue 25

[Nick]

Isn't the choice of dialogs intertwined with styles?

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 at 06:03 Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:42:45AM -0700, David Cortesi wrote:
> > > When running the sample the file dialog looks way out of place (UGLY in
> > > a hugely distracting way).
> >
> > You might experiment with the -style option when starting the
> application.
> > I did this in one case to avoid a problem in the native toolkit:
> >
> >     args = []
> >     if sys.platform == 'linux' :
> >         # avoid a GTK bug in Ubuntu Unity
> >         args = ['','-style','Cleanlooks']
> >     the_app = QApplication( args )
>
> Styles and dialogs are unrelated things. The original question was about
> not using GTK+ dialogs, which can be fixed by building and using the GTK+
> platform theme. This has nothing to do with the styles.
>
> Also, instead of the args hack in your snippet, you can better use API:
>
>   the_app.setStyle('cleanlooks')
>
> See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qapplication.html#setStyle-1
>
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev
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