[Nix-dev] Qt Oxygen style in nixpkgs

[Berno Strik]

Because the nix store is read-only I am almost sure that the file where
the settings are stored is not on a read/write filesystem.
Hope this will help you look into the right direction.

Op Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:11:51 +0000
Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> schreef:

> I noticed a strange thing: Qt applications that I installed from
> nixpkgs look differently from (the same) applications installed by
> the native package manager.
> 
> I started playing with `qtconfig`. What I can’t understand is
> whenever I run `qtconfig` from the nix store, I can’t choose Oxygen
> as GUI style. To be more precise, I can choose it, but the “save”
> button becomes disabled. I’m sure this is the reason applications
> look differently: I can choose any other style and then the looks of
> applications will match. I can also choose (and save) Oxygen with my
> distro’s `qtconfig` and in this case distro’s Qt applications will
> use Oxygen and those installed form nixpkgs probably fallback to some
> default.
> 
> What’s wrong with Oxygen in nixpkgs? I’m not 100% sure, but I think I
> had no problems with Oxygen when running NixOS.