Desktop integration: look and feel

As a Unix system user, I get sick of listening to same reproch again and again: apps look and act different.

Except for their references (neither Microsoft, with default Windows apps GUI looking completely different than Windows Live Apps to name some, or Apple, with the Carbon/Cocoa stuff and a pretty strange policy for iLife), I understand those persons who want a unified look. Because I do so.

I don’t know any solution for all X11 apps. I don’t know much about the “feel” part. The solution I use only deals with GTK1, GTK2, Qt3 and Qt4 apps look. And it’s far from perfect, but hey, who wants to work on “good” font support hack for Gtk 1.2?
This solution is named QtCurve, and it happily happens to be perfectly packaged under Archlinux. There’s even a group. Now, you just have to:

# pacman -S qtcurve gtk-theme-switch gtk-theme-switch2
:: group qtcurve (including ignored packages):
    qtcurve-gtk1  qtcurve-gtk2  qtcurve-kde3  qtcurve-kde4

And then use qtconfig, qtconfig3, switch and switch2.

KDE’s control center is supposed to permit detailed customization of the themes. As I use dwm on a EEEPC, I didn’t try it. But please add comments if you think it is worse the pain. And thanks for the tip, slubman.