Slackware 13: OpenOffice refuses to use GTK2/KDE4 themes.
 

So I'm trying to upgrade to the latest Slackware, from 12.2 to 13 doing a clean install. I've managed to get KDE4 and all my apps happily running the way I want them except for this one problem. OpenOffice.org simply refuses to use either GTK themes or KDE ones. It merely sits there being ugly. Now on Slackware 12.2 I installed the gtk-qt-engine-1.1 and that worked for all of my GTK programs, but on my new system this had no effect. So rather then I went and downloaded gtk-kde4 and this worked like a charm for GTK apps. My current style is QtCurve and I've installed both the GTK2 and KDE4 versions, so unless a program is incapable of rendering with either, I should get QtCurve no matter what.

OpenOffice.org remains to be an exception. I first installed it from the latest build from SlackBuilds, but was met with a terrible grey scheme circa Windows 95 style. I thought perhaps it would be best to install the latest version from the OOo site itself. I downloaded all the rpms and made them into Slackware tgz packages but to no avail. What astounds me is that there were distinct packages, namely ooobasis3.1-gnome-integration-3.1.1-9420.i586.tgz and ooobasis3.1-kde-integration-3.1.1-9420.i586.tgz that imply that OOo should be able to play nice with either style. Both are installed along with the rest of the office suite, but they don't seem to be doing any favors for me at this point.

So what's the deal? Has anyone gotten OOo to install and look alright using GTK or KDE themes for the new Slackware 13? I've been at this for hours already, and it's the one last true hurdle keeping me from adopting Slackware 13 and KDE4 (I've been sticking with KDE 3.5, holding out for this release).

You can take a look at this post.

Except for getting the menu items in kde4, I have been successfull in installing OpenOffice 3.1.1 ... and the themes look allright.

The install method I have used is pretty similar to yours, but perhaps that I have only downloaded and used OOo_3.1.1_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz

I've been meaning to mention that this problem was solved a while ago. I had to force OOo to start using my GNOME QtCurve theme by running export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome and then I launched swriter. I made small script to do this for me and just linked my menu button to the script. Everything's working fine now. Thanks.