F9 + KDE 4.0 (and 4.1) + Inkscape (missing color picker widgets) [SOLVED]

[Rex Dieter]

Michael Park wrote:

> Just wanted to follow-up, since the inkscape devs helped me find a
> work-around.
> 
>> So I installed Inkscape (inkscape-0.46-2.fc9.x86_64), and it's
>> exhibiting unexpected behaviour in the color-picking widgets (in the
>> Fill + Stroke dialog).
> 
> ...
> 
>> The 'Wheel' color picker, however, seems just fine.
> 
> So apparently these 3 color pickers are tied to the GTK-Qt theme
> engine (gtk-qt-engine-1.1-1.fc9.x86_64, for me), and the 'wheel' color
> picker isn't, which explains why the 'wheel' still worked, while the
> other 3 exhibited the unexpected behaviour.
> 
> The work-around is to use a non-Qt theme for GTK apps (btw, this is in
> KDE 4.0, and 4.1). This can be done at:
> 
> System Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles and Fonts -> (under GTK
> Styles) Use another style
> 
> ...it seems like any option other than 'Qt' will restore the color
> pickers behaviour back to expected behaviour.
> 
> I tried reporting a bug to the GTK-Qt theme engine guys, but it seems
> their trac system is down. At any rate, hope this helps someone if
> they run into a similar problem.

In most cases I've seen gtk-qt-engine of misrenders, it's usually a bug in the app.  Are the inkscape folks *certain* about this?

-- Rex