KGtk (Use KDE Dialogs in Gtk Apps)

This is a quick-and-dirty LD_PRELOAD hack that allows *some* Gtk applications to use KDE's file dialogs when run under KDE.

The Gtk file chooser functions have been overridden to communicate with this KDE module/application.

After compiling and installing this, you can run Gtk applications in 2 ways:

A. call /usr/local/bin/kgtk-wrapper gimp

B. i. Create a symbolic link from the wrapper script to your application, e.g.
ln -s /usr/local/bin/kgtk-wrapper /usr/local/bin/gimp
ii. Make sure /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin (or wherever gimp is installed) in your $PATH
iii. Now simply run 'gimp' - this should find the wrapper script first.

If this works OK, then edit the .desktop file (e.g. /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop) to have "Exec=/usr/local/bin/[appname]" instead of "Exec=[appname]", e.g. for gimp.desktop this would be:

Exec=/usr/local/bin/gimp-remote-2.2 %U

or:

Exec=/usr/local/bin/kgtk-wrapper gimp-remote-2.2 %U


So far I have tested this with the following applications:

1. Kino. Works perfectly - in fact Kino was my main reason for doing this.
2. Firefox. Works with Firefox 1.5, but *not* Firefox 1.0.x
3. GIMP. Again, seems to work just fine. However, there is no progress bar on file loading - as GIMP uses a progress bar embedded in the file chooser.
4. Inkscape. Works OK - at least 0.43
5. Streamtuner - the folder browser button works.
6. AbiWord - does *not* work. Don't even try...
7. Glade2. Seems to work OK, however I have had it crash when loading Kino's .glade file, but not always. So I'm not sure if this is Glade's fault, or mine.
8. Eclipse. Will work only if dlsym can be overriden

As the only Gtk apps I use are Kino, GIMP, and a little of Firefox, this library works great for me. Your millage may vary, and please note that this is only a quick hack to get things working now for me. I'm not sure how stable it will be under heavy usage, so don't be surprised if it breaks. However, if it does break - the only thing that should happen is that the Gtk apps will fall back to using the standard Gtk dialogs.

The 'Portland' freedesktop project will undoubtedly come up with a far better solution. But until then, you can give this a try.

p.s. Before anyone asks, as they always do:
Widget style: QtCurve, works for KDE and Gtk (also does KDE->Gtk icon mapping). This is set on the "Clear" variation.
Window decoration: Crystal with Knifty buttons
Font: Verdana. However, I have recompiled FreeType with the TrueType byte encoder enabled - this give great looking non anti-aliased fonts (otherwise they look *horrible*)

0.10.1
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1. Fix 'kgtk-wrapper ./app' case.
2. Set filename for KdialogD4's save as filedialog.
3. Hacky fix for Firefox crashing when trying to save to a file that already exists -> delete it first!
4. When launching KDialogD, try todetermin which version is installed.
5. Add some compile fixes from kde-apps

0.10.0
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1. Fix CMake bug at double definition of destantion dir for gmo. - thanks to Yar Odin.
2. When KDialogD is started, write its PID to a file. When each app attempts to connect to KDialogD, it checks if the PID in the file is still active - if not it starts KDialogD.
3. KIO::NetAccess::mostLocalUrl fails if a file does not exist. If so, then check if parent folder exists - and if so, append filename to that.

0.9.6
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1. Fix russion translation files - thanks to Yar Odin
2. Fix some CMake 2.6 issues.

0.9.5
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1. Fix detection of firefox. Treat xulrunner as Firefox.
2. Quick hack for kino - always save as .kino
3. Prevent dummy gtk window from appearing in KDE4's 'present windows' window selector.
4. Translations:
Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR) Márcio Moraes
Russion (ru) Yar Odin
5. Fix kdialogd4's file widget.
6. Fix kgtk-wrapper script for relative paths - thanks to Ingo Müller.
7. set G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 for non UTF8 locales.

0.9.4
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1. Translations:
Spanish (es) Marco Antonio Blanco
2. When saving with opera, show the suggested filename.

0.9.3
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1. Translations:
German (de) jakuhr-linux@gmx.de
Czech (cs) Marián Kyral
2. Fix firefox crash when overwriting an existing file.


0.9.2
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1. Remove 'which gimp' from kgtk-wrapper - oops!
2. In kgtk-wrapper, set opera to use qt3
3. Fix opera crash.
4. Use GLib's convert function to convert to/from utf8, and to/from URIs
5. Walk through Qt3's QFileDialog's children to locate combobox containing filetypes, as opposed to using a copy of QFileDialogPrivate
6. Translations:
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) Liang Qi
French (fr) Paul Thomas
British English (en_GB) Me!
7. Implement over-riding of non statically called Qt4 QFileDialogs

0.9.1
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1. Use cmake as build system.
2. Fix recognition of gimp 2.4
3. Fix translation of standard kde strings.
4. Fix case where kgtk-wrapper is called via a symlink.

0.9
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1. Fix dialog parenting issues with Gtk folder picker combo/menu.
2. Fix compilation issue for KDE < 3.4
3. Treat Iceweasel and Swiftfox the same as firefox.
4. Improve operation under beryl.
5. Add KDE4 and Qt4 support.
6. Reduce heavy CPU usage of kqt
7. Fix some i18n issues.
8. Place wrapper scripts into prefix/bin, and libraries into prefix/lib/kgtk
9. kgtk-wrapper can now be called for Gtk2, Qt3, and Qt4 apps. The app is checked to determine which toolkit it is using. If this check fails, you may edit ~/.kde/share/config/kgtkrc and add lines such as

[Apps]
eclipse=gtk2
scribus=qt3
abiword=x

Setting "abiword=x" disables kgtk for abiword (as it doesnt work!)