[SOLVED] No GTK themes on KDE

Good morning.
I'm having a rather odd problem, one which I have yet to encounter.
I use KDE as a desktop, and when I start a GTK program using KDE tools (such as a launcher, or KDE's run command prompt) the program starts without being themed.
When I start the programs from a terminal, they are themed properly.
Has anyone a clue as to what's wrong with my setup?
Thank you.
Last edited by sweiss (2007-04-21 07:00:21)

Oh, sorry.
It was a bad environment variable - gtk-qt-engine generated a file in my ~/.kde/env directory which manipulated an environment variable. Deleting this file solved this issue.

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