Bug 175927

Summary:	KDE dialog boxes also for Qt apps
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	usrrgt
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, mail
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	needs_verification
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description usrrgt 2008-11-23 20:51:55 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Qt apps don't show KDE dialog boxes for open/save actions.
It's unconsistent desktop experience for the user.

It's possible make a solution? Like as KGtk o better?
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36077

Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-11-23 22:45:10 UTC

Do you have an example of Qt apps which doesn't use the KDE open/save dialog?

Comment 2 usrrgt 2008-11-24 06:34:39 UTC

For example: VirtualBox, Mixxx, Qtractor, SMPlayer, Opera web browser, etc...

Comment 3 George Kiagiadakis 2008-11-24 11:46:39 UTC

This is implemented from the kde side, but in order to work the Qt app has to dlopen libkio and create a KComponentData object. A hack to achieve this would be to LD_PRELOAD a library with a static KComponentData that links to libkio.

As an example of an application where this works is Qt designer, if the kdewidgets library is installed and designer displays the kde widgets.

I guess that from the kde side that's all we can do. Imho, if you want this to work in all applications, you should ask it from Nokia/Qt software.

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2009-12-31 02:08:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 85573 ***