Pinta 2.2: Support for KDE Plasma 6

[MajorTomDE]

Hello,

I currently test version 2.2 with KDE Plasma 6 (Fedora 40).

Unfortunately, two things are not yet working:

• Design of Min, Max, Close buttons are not adopted from the GTK theme set in KDE.
• Menu (File, Edit...) don't support KDE global menu. I'm not a expert, but I read that the application should support com.Canonical.AppMenu.Registrar - also for Ubuntu global menu?

Independent from KDE, the current implementation of the menu (File, Edit...) is not really good.
It takes far too many clicks to navigate through the menu and select the needed function.
For an fast workflow, a classic horizontal menu bar is so much better.

Is this request clear or do you need more information?

Thank you, Tom

[cameronwhite]

• Do you have an image to show what you mean with the maximize / close buttons not matching the GTK theme? Pinta 2.2 is using Libadwaita so I don't know if KDE's GTK theming settings will exactly apply - do you have the same issue with other GNOME applications that use libadwaita?
• The global menu probably doesn't work because the header bar layout that Pinta uses to conform with the GNOME UI guidelines doesn't really specify a main menu that KDE could hook into? I don't know if there's a way to reliably detect running under KDE (is there always a global menubar or is that configurable?), but

  Pinta/Pinta/WindowShell.cs

  Line 42 in f8332b7

  var app_layout = Adw.ToolbarView.New ();

  and

  Pinta/Pinta/MainWindow.cs

  Line 302 in f8332b7

  bool using_header_bar = window_shell.HeaderBar is not null;

  is the relevant code. On macOS Pinta sets up the UI layout differently since GTK is able to hook into the global menu there

[MajorTomDE]

Hey, thanks for your reply. My question has been answered.
I have researched the difference between GTK and libadwaita. I never stop learning.
KDE and other desktops support GTK3/4 theming when libadwaita is not used.

With libadwaita, the apps always look the same. This is good for GNOME but unattractive for other desktops like KDE. Whether this is good or bad is a question of philosophy. I personally don't like the strict guidelines of GNOME and prefer the customizability of KDE and xfce. Nevertheless, Pinta 2.2 runs under KDE - just doesn't quite fit the design

KDE Global Menu is on official but optional extension/applet for the panels.

[cameronwhite]

Thanks! I think we can keep this open as a request to add an option to launch Pinta with a classic menubar layout, similar to what happens on macOS (assuming that GTK has the proper hooks to convert this into the KDE global menu)

[MajorTomDE]

Great :-) Thank you very much.