Platinum

[probonopd]

People have wondered whether we can get a Platinum-like theme to work on helloSystem.

The following is a quick writeup, mainly for my future self, but maybe it can get you started if you want to experiment with this sort of thing:

# Install QtCurve
qt5-style-qtcurve 

# It may be possible to get Gtk2 and maybe Gtk3 applications
# to look somewhat consistent using
# gtk2-qtcurve-theme
# https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve-gtk3
# https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/

# Needed for global menus to work
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=panda

# Use QtCurve
export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=QtCurve

# Set a QtCurve theme
export QTCURVE_CONFIG_FILE=/home/user/Downloads/QPlatinum/QPlatinum2.qtcurve

# Unpack the QPlatinum folder from QPlatinum_2.0.tar.gz from https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1287743

# Get the icons and the fonts
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/grassmunk/Platinum9
sudo mv Platinum9/NineIcons /usr/local/share/icons/
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/icons/NineIcons /usr/local/share/icons/default
sudo mv Platinum9/MONACO.TTF Platinum9/Charcoal.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/

# Disable our stylesheet
sudo mv /usr/local/etc/xdg/stylesheet.qss /usr/local/etc/xdg/stylesheet.qss.disabled

# Need to set the fonts somewhere (Need to make it configurable via an env in QtPlugin?)

From there, follow https://www.opencode.net/zinjanthr0pus/qplatinum to make it look even better.

Currently the system font is hardcoded in QtPlugin; I had to change it to Charcoal there. Maybe we should make it use an environment variable or only set it when the current style is Panda or something like that.