Getting GNOME settings applied for GNOME apps in KDE sessions

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 17:21 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Oops, I wrote:
> > > install our gtk-qt-engine theme to get it.
> >
> > I actually meant "install our gtk-qt-engine _package_".
> 
> Ok, that looks useful, but helps only for a subset of the issues.  For 
> example, it doesn't help with broken gnome-control-center icons.

I think ultimately the right answer is that running gnome-control-center
doesn't make sense outside of GNOME, and that you should be able to
configure the important things for all applications from the KDE menus.
The "proxy to xsettings" approach seems like the current solution for
that.