Skype does not obey qgtkstyle

So I just installed Skype, but for some reason it came with a very odd theme, and it seems it forces itself to use this theme unless you override it.
I was able to override it and specify a different qt theme, but it won't work with GTK themes even though all other QT applications have no problem with qgtkstyle.
This works:
/usr/bin/skype --disable-cleanlooks -style Plastique
But these don't:
/usr/bin/skype --disable-cleanlooks -style GTK
/usr/bin/skype --disable-cleanlooks -style GTK+
I wouldn't be bothered so much by this if it weren't for the fact that I have a fairly unique theme—that really looks terrible with the default Skype theme or any other qt themes I know.
My GTK theme is MurrinaChrome. I thought it was a problem with it being a Murrina theme, but I tried other GTK themes, and they also do not work.
I notice lots of others can get GTK themes working with Skype.
Could anyone help me?

sokuban wrote:
Well, since you said "bin32-skype", I assume you are using the dynamic qt libraries. I tried the dynamic skype (the "skype" package) and it works fine.
Only with skype-oss do I have this problem. (And I need skype-oss as I use oss.)
I said bin32-skype since the issue I experienced was with the 64bit, but since fixing it once it hasn't reoccurred. I tried both the skype-static and skype packages, and only successfully fixed the problem with the static one (not sure why), but since the beta was moved to core I haven't had any issues, might just be that my old fix is still in place. I don't use OSS, so I'm not sure if this will help with the skype-oss version, but I assume it's worth trying, but is the skype.conf file in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/?
*EDIT* I also noticed that the PKGBUILD for skype-oss seems to be out of date. I didn't have the issue with the new "beta" version of Skype, so maybe try updating the PKGBUILD and seeing if the error persists, although the package maintainer says he didn't see an oss version?
*EDIT* I'm not currently on my arch PC, but if you need, I'll post the locations of all skype files on my PC later on, if you think that may help you.
Last edited by lswest (2009-10-09 15:11:17)

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