Re: [Lxde-list] Qt platform integration plugin

[Stephan S. <gma...@sp...>]

Ugh. Embarassing. I forgot to correct "these five things" when I 
realized that I should subdivide points 4 and 6 for a nice, clear list.

On 13-11-16 07:29 AM, Stephan Sokolow wrote:
> Regardless of my DE, most of my apps are GTK+ 2.x apps (things like
> Comix, Geeqie, gVim, and Firefox which have no acceptable replacements)
> but I definitely like the idea of injecting some decent file dialogs
> into the few native Qt apps I have (eg. LyX, GoldenDict, etc.).
>
> Just give me something that does these five things and I should be
> perfectly happy with it:
>
> 1. Offers a Places sidebar (like GTK+ and KDE but not default Qt) and
> supports marking an individual bookmark as specific to a single
> application (unlike GTK+)
>
> 2. Allows me to set a fixed size for any icons in the places sidebar
> (unlike KDE 4) rather than throwing off my muscle memory by changing the
> height of each row every time I attach or disconnect removable media.
>
> 3. Lets me rename and delete files from the context menu (like KDE and
> the Qt default dialog but not GTK+). I'm sick and tired of having to
> open PCManFM and navigate God only knows how deep into my filesystem
> just to rename or delete a file that's already right in front of me. (Or
> just forget AGAIN for the dozenth time, as usually happens)
>
> 4. Offers comfortable keyboard interaction and, unlike GTK+, doesn't
> force me to start with the "Recent Files" virtual folder selected.
>
> 5. Has a location bar that actually works rather than GTK+'s tendency to
> randomly auto-complete without being asked. (I'm sick of typing
> "/usr/bin" and discovering that I got "/usr/sr/bin/in".)
>
> 6. Has a multi-column small icon view ("Compact View" in PCManFM or
> "Short View" in KDE 4) where arrow key motions are commutative and
> symmetrical (unlike KDE 4 Open/Save dialogs where list entry bounding
> boxes vary in size, allowing the arrow keys to skip over short filenames
> sandwiched in between long filenames... sometimes forcing you to grab
> the mouse to focus certain files).
>
> 7. Has a multi-column small icon view that interprets the Up/Down arrow
> keys as Previous/Next so that you can reach any file in the current
> folder without touching Left/Right. (Again, unlike KDE 4 where pressing
> Up at the top of a column or Down at the bottom of a column does nothing.)
>
> The ability to switch between location bar and breadcrumb trail
> representations of the current path in Open dialogs would also be nice
> but isn't essential.
>
> Also, I don't suppose KDE has any mechanism that would let you override
> the dialogs in KDE 4 apps I use like K3b, Filelight, and Okular?
>
> On 13-11-16 06:56 AM, PCMan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> After some research, I found that we can utilize the Qt GUI platform
>> plugin to integrate Qt apps with our DE. For example, the 3rd party Qt
>> apps can use the icon theme we specified by default.
>> Hence I added a new component, lxqt-qtplugin.
>> This will install a plugin in /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/gui_platform.
>> By exporting QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=lxqt, we can ask Qt to load our plugin
>> for every Qt programs, including the 3rd party ones.
>>
>> Currently, the plugin only does one thing, loading icon theme setting
>> from LxQt::globalSettings(), and apply it to all Qt programs.
>>
>> We can do more with the plugin later. For example, our own file dialogs
>> based on pcmanfm-qt and our own color dialog can be added. Besides,
>> since the plugin is loaded by every Qt programs, we can inject other
>> stuff into the programs as needed.
>> With this plugin, I think libxdsettings becomes less necessary.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
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