[SOLVED] Application Appearance Oxygen Style not working

[janasx1]

Hi,
I did a new installation of Mageia 3 64-bit KDE.
The look and feel of the applications are not changing based on the KDE sytem settings > Application Appearance > Oxygen.
See below link for the screenshot.
Please let me know how to fix this.

http://tinypic.com/r/1zps9dg/5


Thanks

[doktor5000]

Style only changes the widgets (buttons and so on).

BTW, what media did you use for installation?

[janasx1]

hmmmm.
I thought the style will change all the controls (buttons, dropdown, scroll bar, tree etc.) in all the applications.

I used live DVD Mageia 3 64-bit KDE.

Thanks

[janasx1]

Here is the full story and solution.

While installing, I reused existing partitions created by PClinuxOS.
I formatted / partition but not /home partition.

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Here is what I did to identify and fix.
Created another user in Mageia, logged in as that user to setup the folders and compared the home folders between the 2 users.
I found a file called .gtkrc-2.0 in the home folder of the user having issues.
Renamed it to .gtkrc-2.0.bak
Now I see Firefox, Software Manager are having oxygen theme.
As you said, changing the style is not changing it in Firefox, Software Manager.
I am not sure what other apps behave like this.

Thanks

[doktor5000]

Just have a look in the systemsettings module at the right side at the top, there's the description what is changed (the part in bold:)


If you want to change the whole style, you need to change window decoration, workspace design under workspace appearance and
stale under application appearance. Check http://userbase.kde.org/Special:MyLangu ... Appearance and http://userbase.kde.org/Special:MyLangu ... Appearance

For GTK applications you may want to install gtk-qt-engine to apply KDE theme to GTK applications.