So based on your tests and that arch linux wiki, it seems there are a number of minor changes we could make to the Linux sigil start-up script to force fusion as the style (or force one of the other working styles).
The arch linux site lists the following:
QGtkStyle - the one that seems to have problems
QGnomePlatform - for all gnome based systems
Breeze - default for KDE Plasma systems
Adwaita - new default gnome theme
and the ones built into Qt itself (Fusion).
From other reports it seems Adwaita and Fusion are known to work.
But given DiapDealer's opinion of Fusion - many people may not like it! ;-)
So I am not sure how we should handle this. The bug is not in Sigil and not in Qt. It is in a Qt Linux added theme. Calibre forces an adjusted Fusion theme to work around it.
What is the best way for Sigil to handle this?
FWIW - we can use QApplication::style() to get back the name of the style that the system defaults to on Linux and then compare it against a list of known good styles and if not a known good style force either Fusion or Adwaita depending on availability on that system.
Linux people - what would be best here?
KevinH
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
As a Qt app, you can simply use `sigil -style Fusion` to force the fusion theme. It works perfectly, and quite frankly looks a lot better on general principle.
I might even be persuaded to start caring about themes at the rate things are going. I've always been a mostly oblivious user of themes and fonts and stuff  but things are reaching a tipping point... |