VLC really looks ugly under Openbox (Qt related I think)

Hello Archers
I'm still trying Openbox, and I've met a problem with VLC media player
It really looks UGLY under Openbox, I've searched a little bid, and found that VLC use Qt
I thing that it's THE problem I must have an ugly qt thême set by default...
I googled that, I found something called "Qgtkstyle" and "Qtconfig" but any of them are in the repo
I would like to be able to set a cute qt theme, but I do not want to install too many apps from KDE (I'm very limited by my HDD (2GB))
Thank you
Last edited by Lowra (2010-06-05 09:15:14)

Qtconfig is in the package qt. The style of qt apps is in /usr/lib/qt/plugins/styles. Look this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90720. I think that you can copy the style from some installation with kde.
Last edited by educev (2010-06-05 09:44:52)

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