Migrating from GTK to QT so I can have normal sized icons

Because atm GTK doesn't scale correctly (yes, 2023), I've been moving my applications to QT. I was a bit scared about the file manager because it is a very central part of my work. But I'm moving back from thunar to pcmanfm-qt.

Thunar Arc Dark

 

To my surprise, QT is awesome. This is the only thing I neened to setup:

# Install the packages
aur -S kvantum arc-kde




The kvantum package come with kvantummanager which is basically a GUI theme selector. I choose ArkDark there, exactly the same theme I had on thunar. The last thing remaining is to add this line to my .profile, my .zshrc, and wofi, so the kvantummanager settings are applied to my QT programs.


 


# And tell the system to use the theme editor
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=kvantum 

 

You can compare the results. On QT, icons scale correctly.

 

PCMANFM-QT Arc Dark

 

QT finally give me some peace. If you find any issue on GTK, you are sold. But on QT there is always something you can do to help yourself. And kvantummanager makes possible even for users who are not so experienced, or just don't have the time to research how to style through config files.