You’re not missing anything. The team there made sure their package is environment-agnostic when it comes to theming.
And yes, Breeze is originally Qt, but there are ‘breeze-gtk’ packages created for GTK-based environments for compatibility/uniformity.
Ok, but i still don’t get it. If KDE is Qt and Breeze is Qt why is the enviromental variable
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt6 QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=breeze
ignored?
If I force libreoffice to use gtk3 and specify breeze-gtk as theme it works or at least I force it look like breeze.
env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 GTK_THEME=breeze-gtk
Why is this accepted and the other command with Qt not?
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE may not be the correct variable in this case. Try using QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME instead and see if it works.
Oh, yes!
Another option would be to edit the launcher and add this to the command:
--platformtheme qt6ct
This is what I did with Dolphin when it was having issue living in a GTK environment. So,
dolphin --platformtheme qt6ct -> libreoffice --platformtheme qt6ct
Using --platformtheme qt5ct should work if --platformtheme qt6ct doesn’t.
It does not work. According to the arch forum, this environmental variable is used to get Qt Style apps to blend in with GTK GNOME.
Gives me a failure as output.
So the best solution so far is
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 GTK_THEME=breeze-gtk
As mentioned above i still don’t get why i can’t set a theme for Qt based app with Qt based theme, but for now we will never know.
Thanks to all of you. As always I learned a lot. I will leave this open for another week and if nothing new will be added I mark the solution above.
Let me say again, Libreoffice is agnostic. It is neither Qt nor Gtk. It just works with both.
But I do understand the annoyance and/or bewilderment in things not working as expected.
Sorry, I did not understand what you meant with “agnostic”, but now I get it. It is a mix of it works with each, but not everything works as expected.
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