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Agriculture's Top Legal Gun – Tim Bernasek Profiled in Capital Press
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Portland attorney Tim Bernasek emerges as the go-to legal gun for Oregon agriculture
By Eric Mortenson, Capital Press
Published: October 01. 2013 3:36PM
The eastern Oregon farmer was shaken. The volunteer wheat plants he'd sprayed with glyphosate didn't die, and now grim investigators with the USDA wanted to know what he was doing with unapproved "Roundup Ready" wheat growing in his field.
The grower was certain he hadn't done anything wrong and was willing to cooperate. After all, he'd reported the finding when he could have tilled the plants under with no one the wiser. But the feds were talking potential criminal or civil penalties, and vociferous GMO opponents were sure to howl when they found out. The farmer was nervous.
Fellow farmers urged the Oregon Wheat Commission to help, and chief executive Blake Rowe scoured his sources for an attorney who could stand between the grower and the storm that was sure to come. Someone who could do a little handholding, explain the process and protect the farmer's rights.
One name emerged: Tim Bernasek, a partner in the Portland law firm of Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue.
Rowe hadn't heard of him, but in retrospect it was an obvious choice. Bernasek in the past couple years has become Oregon agriculture's go-to problem solver, a calm presence who quickly "figures out the endgame," as one admirer puts it, and guides his clients to a resolution. In the process, the agricultural practice group he heads at Dunn Carney has become a model that other law firms are beginning to emulate. Some are expanding their natural resource and environmental teams to include farm labor, estate law, land use, water and food safety specialists.
In the wheat case, Bernasek protected the farmer's privacy, carefully answered the media's questions and served as intermediary as investigators from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service flooded eastern Oregon and Washington.
The investigation is unresolved — APHIS has not yet determined how the genetically engineered plants ended up in the farmer's field — but Bernasek's work won praise.
"I really feel this poor farmer was caught like a deer in the headlights," says Paulette Pyle, grass roots director with Oregonians for Food & Shelter. When Rowe called looking for an attorney, Pyle recommended Bernasek.
"Tim had all the ability, especially the cool, calm intelligence, to lead him through that," Pyle says.
'Hot goods' battle
It wasn't the first time. Bernasek, 42, is legal counsel for the Oregon Farm Bureau, and in July 2012 he was summoned to represent Oregon blueberry farms accused of widespread record keeping and minimum wage violations involving pickers.
The U.S. Department of Labor slapped the farmers with "hot goods" orders that prevented them from shipping berries unless they paid a combined $220,000 in fines and back wages and signed consent decrees admitting wrong. The also had to agree not to contest the order even if they were later exonerated.
The farms, Pan American Berry Growers of Salem and B&G Ditchen of Silverton, were in a tight spot. They faced a choice of signing the papers or fighting it and risk their berries going bad while the court process dragged. One grower called the situation "extortion." According to court documents, he had berries worth an estimated $1.5 million sitting in storage, ready to be shipped. The feds had already warned processors not to move the berries.
"We were in a little bit of uncharted territory here," says Dave Dillon, the Farm Bureau vice president. "The Department of Labor was using tactics we'd never seen before. I can't think of anything more delicate than fresh market blueberries."
Bernasek urged a strategic retreat: Sign the consent orders, save the berry crop, then strike back when time was on the growers' side. In August, 13 months later, he filed a federal court complaint alleging the labor department's action was coercive and denied the growers due process. The complaint demands that the department rescind its action and repay the farmers.
Dillon, the Farm Bureau's vice president, says the case illustrates Bernasek's "longer-term strategic view" of a fast-changing world.
"I've never seen him anything but steady and focused on how do we get to right place from here," he says.
With courts increasingly deciding natural resource issues and activist groups setting the agenda, once-reticent farmers and farm organizations must be engaged in policy decisions, Dillon says. Attorneys representing agriculture can't be content with reviewing contracts and tending risk management issues.
The human side
"We're not in court cases for what it means today, but we're engaged today as a building block to help us get to the next spot, and the next spot," Dillon says.
What sets Bernasek apart, Dillon says, is his sensitivity to the human side of legal issues.
"Other attorneys are very proficient and capable, but they just don't understand we're talking about people," he says. "Tim never loses sight of that."
Bernasek waves off praise. It's an honor, he says, to represent Oregon's farmers.
He acknowledges it's an unusual turn that brought him to this point. He works in downtown Portland, and there isn't a silo, barn or tractor in sight from his 15th floor office. He's a trim urban jogger and fly fisherman who lives in a pleasant southwest Portland neighborhood with his wife, Poppy, and their two children.
If there's a clue to his social or political approach to life, it's the bust of Teddy Roosevelt that shares space on his bookshelf with photos of his family. Roosevelt, he says, was a true conservationist: Wanting neither to lock up the nation's natural areas nor to exploit them, but to assure they were preserved for the public's enjoyment. The 26th president also sought the middle ground economically, favoring legislation that leveled the playing field.
Growing up
Bernasek spent his high school years in southern Idaho, the son of a chemical engineer and the eldest of three brothers, but has no farm experience. When he was a first-year law student at Willamette University in Salem and applied for a clerking position at the Oregon Farm Bureau, he first thought he was interviewing with an insurance firm.
But the man interviewing him, then-Farm Bureau counsel Joe Hobson, was talking about land-use, labor law and water quality issues.
"What a great experience," Bernasek thought to himself.
He and Hobson, whom Bernasek describes as a mentor and a "great, great guy," worked together at the Farm Bureau and later partnered in a law firm. Bernasek was initially attracted by the complex challenges of agricultural and natural resources legal issues, but quickly developed deep respect for the farmers immersed in them.
"They don't suffer fools," he says. "You never have to guess where they're coming from."
He hesitates, saying he doesn't want to sound corny, then speaks of the "general forthrightness" and "common decency" that is part of the rural ethic.
"Because there's so little in the world that's real," he says. "These are real people, working the land to create a tangible product.
"I'm drawn to that," he says. "I also see what's happening as the rules and regulations become more and more complex. They're written by people who are well meaning but, not having grown up on the land, they don't understand what farmers do. The regulations don't match up and don't make sense."
'Caught in the crosshairs'
As a result, people working in natural resource industries are "caught in the crosshairs," he says.
Tough decisions loom ahead. Water quality and quantity will continue to be issues for agriculture, Bernasek says. Animal welfare regulations will be debated. And air quality is "going to be a big one." Dust, odor and emissions from agricultural operations are coming under scrutiny.
"What water has been, air will be," Bernasek says. "It will be a challenge for the industry to tell its story."
The public's intense but often uninformed interest in food production, land and water use and agriculture's environmental impact provides an opportunity to clearly tell that story.
In addition, there's growing recognition of agriculture as an "economic driver," Bernasek says. In Oregon it's the second leading economic force, behind high-tech. A 2011 study by Oregon State University's Rural Studies Program estimated agriculture is responsible for or connected to 15 percent of the state's economic activity. More than 420,000 jobs, ranging from field production and transportation to retail service, are linked to agriculture. It adds an estimated $22 billion to the state's economy annually, according to the report.
It's that impact and connection that increasingly is leading Pacific Northwest law firms to pad their natural resource teams with attorneys versed in agricultural issues.
Professor Mary Wood, director of the natural resources and environmental law program at the University of Oregon School of Law, says agricultural practice groups are more common at Midwest law firms, where giant commodities such as corn and soybeans fill the landscape.
Emerging issues such as genetically engineered crops, chemical trespassing cases and food safety make ag law a growing legal specialty, Wood says.
"It does involve a very complex constellation of legal issues — labor, taxes, land use, environmental law," she says. "Oregon is a great place for this kind of practice."
The ag practice group at Dunn Carney was founded by Elizabeth Howard, a water law expert who worked with Oregon dairy farmers and the Oregon Cattlemen's Association on issues ranging from Klamath Basin water to eastern Oregon wolves. She recruited Bernasek to the team about six years ago. Last year, she asked him to take over the team leadership.
Howard, who recently accepted a position at the prestigious Portland firm Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, echoes Bernasek in her admiration of farmers and ranchers.
"Agriculture is facing so many issues on so many fronts, that it's a critical time to have really good and strong legal representation, and political representation, too," Howard says.
Pyle, of Oregonians for Food & Shelter, says Bernasek is the attorney who "sits at the table" with the state's farmers and ranchers.
"If you get the right attorney — and for agriculture, Tim is it," she says, "you can avoid a lot of mistakes."
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His brother said the former neighborhood watch volunteer was still processing the reality that he wouldn't serve prison time for the killing, which Zimmerman, 29, has maintained was an act of self-defense. A jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder late Saturday night and declined to convict him on a lesser charge of manslaughter.
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"He's going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said during an interview on CNN.
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Those watching the case reacted strongly when the not-guilty verdict was announced. Martin's mother and father were not in the courtroom when the verdict was read; supporters of his family who had gathered outside yelled "No! No!" upon learning of the verdict.
Andrew Perkins, 55, a black resident of Sanford, angrily asked outside the courthouse: "How the hell did they find him not guilty?"
"He killed somebody and got away with murder," Perkins shouted, so angry he shook, looking in the direction of the courthouse. "He ain't getting no probation or nothing."
Trayvon Martin's brother, Jahvaris Fulton, said simply on Twitter: "Et tu America?" — a reference to the Latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" known as an expression of betrayal.
Protesters had taken to the streets late Saturday and into Sunday morning in Florida, Atlanta and San Francisco, among other places. The demonstrators seemed to largely heed the advice of officials and others who urged them not to resort to violence.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump acknowledged the disappointment of Trayvon Martin's supporters, ranking the teen alongside civil rights heroes Medgar Evers and Emmett Till in the history of the fight for equal justice. However, he said, "for Trayvon to rest in peace, we must all be peaceful."
Martin's family maintained the teen was not the aggressor, and prosecutors suggested Martin was scared because he was being followed by a stranger. Defense attorneys, however, claimed Martin knocked Zimmerman down and was slamming the older man's head against the concrete sidewalk when Zimmerman fired his gun.
Prosecutors called Zimmerman a liar and portrayed him was a "wannabe cop" vigilante who had grown frustrated by break-ins in his neighborhood committed primarily by young black men. Zimmerman assumed Martin was up to no good and took the law into his own hands, prosecutors said.
State Attorney Angela Corey said after the verdict that she believed second-degree murder was the appropriate charge because Zimmerman's mindset "fit the bill of second-degree murder."
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The climbing
This Crag features powerful, short bolted routes on steep rock, surrounded by some of the best views Cape Town has to offer.
Getting there
East side: At the end of Boyes Drive is a cul-de-sac (Godfrey Rd.). Park here and follow the hiking trail up toward the saddle. Near the saddle, after the second switchback where the path goes briefly down hill, look for a path sneaking off left up a short hill towards a large boulder. From the boulder follow the path up the final slope to arrive just east of Neptunes cove.
West side: One can park in Mountain Rd., Clovelly, In which case cross the saddle before joining the trail to the crag. From the Clovelly side if you are wanting to climb the Mermaid area, it is easier to turn right onto an obvious well-trodden path 10metres before the saddle. Follow this between two boulders, past a cave, then just above a mini-gulley take a not so obvious turnoff left towards what looks like two boulders, aiming between them. The left "boulder" turns out to be the Mermaid wall.
Topos / Routes
Routes are listed from right to left (east to west).
The Boatyard
Spinning Jenny 20/6b FA Julian Fisher
The route climbs out the left of the large cave east of Dockside crag (no topo).
Left Sector
1. Piracy 23/6c+ FA Marijus Smigelkis
2. Stowaway 20/6b FA Ross Suter.
Route ruined by soot from vagrants fire, needs a serious scrub!
3. Wide Ride 24/7a FA Marijus Smigelkis
Right Sector
1. Talamasca 26/7b FA Marijus Smigelkis
2. Blood and Gold 20/6b FA Marijus Smigelkis and partner.
3. Lil Fishees 21/6b+ FA Greg Hart
4. Dolphin 23/6c+ FA Unknown
5. Sushi 25/7a+ FA Unknown
6. Import Tax 26/7b FA Marijus Smigelkis
Neptunes Cove
Left Sector
This is a good place to warm up by traversing around right of these three routes.
1. Hang Thang 20/6b FA Greg Hart
2. Cling Thing 24/7a FA Malcolm Gowans
3. Kill Bill 23/6c+ FA Greg Hart
Right Sector
1. Unnamed 22/6c FA Unknown
Right of cave from the raised ledge.
The following top-rope problems are all to the right of the cave starting from a raised ledge. The lines have single rings in place on top to thread your rope through, reach these by climbing up the gully at the left end of the ledge leading out of the Neptunes Cove cave and clambering over atop the cliff, just watch out for the large flake right of (facing the crag) the rings which is loose - don't stand on it!!! - easy to avoid though.
2. Arete 18
3. Flake right of Arete 19
4. Thin grey face in middle 23
5. Right edge of thin face 21
6. Juggy line right of thin face 16
Espionage 29/7c+ FA Marijus Smigelkis, The next bolted line right.
The Needle 26 (trad) FA Phlip Olivier
Obvious crack a couple of metres to the right of Espionage.
Oyster Box
Routes 14 & 15 in the book 'Western Cape Rock' are wrong. Oyster is actually 15m left of these two (see topo above).
1. Oyster 16 FA Ross Suter
2. Lurchin' Urchin 24/7a FA Malcolm Gowans. Standing-start on right.
2a. Lurchin' Urchin direct 26/7b FA Paul Schlotveld. Direct sit-start.
3. Open Project 8b/c?
4. Catfish Rising 22/6c FA Tony Lourens
5. Heartbreak 28/7c FA Marijus Smigelkis
6. Pocket Rocket 26/7b FA Jason Orton
7. The Art of War 32/8b FA Marijus Smigelkis
1. Sinbad 18/6a FA Ross Suter
Blackbeards Cave
- Dark Angel (30)
Greg Hart's old project (#24 in book).
FA Marijus Smigelskis.
- Xses (24)
Right of Dark Angel. Start from cheater stones. Marijus opened a start from the back of the cave at grade 27. (#25 in book).
FA Greg Hart / Marijus Smigelskis.
- Unnamed (25/26)
Right of Dickless Ticks (#27 in book).
FA Marijus Smigelskis.


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=== Qt4 styles ===
=== Qt4 styles ===
Qt4 styles
Qt4 styles be changed in a similar way:
* Using the ''KDE4 System Settings'' (systemsettings), the settings can be found in ''Common Appearance and Behavior > Application Appearance > Style > Widget Style''
* Using the ''KDE4 System Settings'' (systemsettings), the settings can be found in ''Common Appearance and Behavior > Application Appearance > Style > Widget Style''
* Using the command-line tool {{ic|$ kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group General --key widgetStyle [name of style]}}.
* Using the command-line tool {{ic|$ kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group General --key widgetStyle [name of style]}}.
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zh-CN:Uniform Look for Qt and GTK Applications
Qt and GTK+ based programs both use a different widget toolkit to render the graphical user interface. Each come with different themes, styles and icon sets by default, among other things, so the "look and feel" differ significantly. This article will help you make your Qt and GTK+ applications look similar for a more streamlined and integrated desktop experience.
To get a similar look between the two you will most likely have to modify the following:
- Theme: The custom appearance of an application, widget set, etc. It usually consists of a style, an icon theme and a color theme.
- Style: The graphical layout and look of the widget set.
- Icon Theme: A set of global icons.
- Color Theme: A set of global colors that are used in conjunction with the style.
You can choose various approaches:
- Modify GTK+ and Qt styles separately with the tools listed below for each toolkit and aim for choosing similarly looking themes (style, colors, icons, cursors, fonts).
- Use a special theme engine, which intermediates the modification of the other graphical toolkit to match your main toolkit:
- if you work in KDE 4 desktop environment then a GTK-Qt engine is available, which updates GTK+ configuration files automatically so that GTK+ appearance is similar to the Qt one;
- similarly if you work in the Trinity desktop environment a GTK-Qt and GTK3-Qt engine is available.
- if you work in other desktop environments, you can choose the QGtkStyle engine (built in Qt), which forces Qt apps to use your GTK+ 2.x theme.
Should you use also GTK+ 3.x toolkit, follow the GTK+ 3.x wiki article to find out how to make it look similar to GTK+ 2.x themes.
- 1 Styles for both Qt and GTK+
- 2 Changing styles in each toolkit
- 3 Theme engines
- 4 Tips and tricks
- 5 Troubleshooting
Styles for both Qt and GTK+
There are widget style sets available for the purpose of integration, where builds are written and provided for both Qt and GTK+, all major versions included. With these, you can have one look for all applications regardless of the toolkit they had been written with.
KDE4 Oxygen
Oxygen is a Qt style that comes by default with KDE4. There are various ways of mimicking its appearance that are described below.
oxygen-gtk is a port of the Oxygen Qt Style to GTK+ done by the Oxygen developers. Unlike other attempts, it is a native GTK+ style that does not depend on Qt (via some Qt to GTK+ conversion engine) nor does it render widget appearances via hard coded pixmaps. The style has the primary goal to ensure visual consistency between GTK+ 2.x/3.x and Qt-based applications running under KDE with a secondary objective to also have a standalone, nice looking GTK+ theme that behaves well in other desktop environments.
The style has GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x variants which can be installed with the oxygen-gtk2 or oxygen-gtk3 packages, available in the official repositories.
~/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc-2.0, or let it automatically create like described below. But that is actually counter-productive with KDE 4.10's oxygen-gtk, and you should delete this file after upgrading to prevent it from messing with your colors. Cleanup-removal of
~/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc might be necessary, too.
Automatic procedure
A few dedicated applications are available in the official repositories that are able to change the GTK+ theme.
You can also install kde-gtk-config. After installation, it can be found in System Settings > Application Appearance > GTK Configuration. It allows you to configure the look and feel for both GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3.x applications and is integrated with the KDE add-on installer (Get Hot New Stuff), so you can also download and install other GTK+ themes.
Manual procedure
To manually change the GTK+ theme to oxygen-gtk, you need to create the file
~/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc-2.0 with the following content:
include "/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" style "user" { fg[NORMAL] = "#1b1918" bg[NORMAL] = "#d5d1cf" text[NORMAL] = "#181615" base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[ACTIVE] = "#1b1918" bg[ACTIVE] = "#d5d1cf" text[ACTIVE] = "#181615" base[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff" fg[PRELIGHT] = "#1b1918" bg[PRELIGHT] = "#d5d1cf" text[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff" base[PRELIGHT] = "#43ace8" fg[SELECTED] = "#1b1918" bg[SELECTED] = "#d5d1cf" text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff" base[SELECTED] = "#43ace8" fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#8d8a88" bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#ccc7c5" text[INSENSITIVE] = "#a6a5a5" base[INSENSITIVE] = "#f4f4f4" GtkTreeView::odd_row_color="#ffffff" GtkTreeView::even_row_color="#f8f7f6" } widget_class "*" style "user" style "tooltips" { bg[NORMAL] = "#bedfff" fg[NORMAL] = "#252321" } widget "gtk-tooltips" style "tooltips" #gtk-theme-name="qt4" gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 9" gtk-icon-theme-name="gk4ico" gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=16,16:panel=16,16:gtk-button=22,22:gtk-large-toolbar=22,22"
Then you need to create the symbolic link
$ ln -s ~/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc-2.0 ~/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc
Oxygen icons
If you are using Oxygen icons and want a consistent look in GTK+ dialogs, you can install the oxygenrefit2-icon-themeAUR icon theme from AUR and set it as your GTK+ icon theme. To apply the theme you can use
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Another version of the Oxygen icon theme for GTK+ applications can be installed with the oxygen-gtk-iconsAUR package from AUR.
QtCurve is a highly popular and configurable set of widget styles for GTK+ 2.x, Qt4, Qt5 and KDE4. QtCurve can be installed with the packages from qtcurve group, available in the official repositories. It has many controls for various options, ranging from the appearance of buttons to the shape of sliders.
To manually change the GTK+ theme to QtCurve, you need to create the file
~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 with the following content:
include "/usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" include "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" style "user-font" { font_name="Sans Serif" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" gtk-theme-name="QtCurve"
Then you need to create the symbolic link
ln -s .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 .gtkrc-2.0
If you want also specify a font, you can add (and adapt) the following line to the file:
gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 9"
Similar style sets are those that look like each other - written and provided for both Qt and GTK+ - but are not necessarily from the same developers. You may have to do some minor tweaking to make them look the same (e.g. kdestyle-klearlookAUR for Qt4/KDE4 and the Clearlooks GTK+ theme).
Changing styles in each toolkit
You can use the following methods to change the theme used in each environment.
Qt5 styles
Qt5 decides the style to use based on what desktop environment is used. If it doesn't recognize the desktop environment, it falls back to a generic style. To force a specific style, you can set the
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE environment variable. Specifically, set it to
gtk if you want to use the gtk theme. Qt5 applications also support the
-style flag, which you can use to launch a Qt5 application with a specific style.
Qt4 styles
Qt4 styles can be changed in a similar way:
- Using the KDE4 System Settings (systemsettings), the settings can be found in Common Appearance and Behavior > Application Appearance > Style > Widget Style
- Using the command-line tool
$ kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group General --key widgetStyle [name of style].
- Using the Qt Configuration (qtconfig-qt4) application, the settings can be found in Appearance > Select GUI Style.
Note that while Qt Configuration allows you to choose the theme, font, etc. for Qt apps, you can modify more settings with KDE4 System Settings (e.g. font antialiasing and hinting).
Qt3 styles
Qt3 styles can be changed in the following ways:
- Using the KDE3 Control Center (kcontrol), the settings can be found in Appearance & Themes > Style > Widget Style.
- Using the command-line tool
kde-config --style [name of style].
- Using the default Qt Configuration (qt3config) application, the settings can be found in Appearance > Select GUI Style.
GTK+3 styles
Some applications and methods are available to change the GTK+ 3.x styles:
- kde-gtk-config — Application that allows you to change style and font of GTK+2 and Gtk+3 applications.
- https://projects.kde.org/kde-gtk-config || kde-gtk-config
- After installation,
kde-gtk-configcan also be found in System Settings > Application Appearance > GTK.
- LXAppearance — Desktop independent GTK+2 and GTK+3 style configuration tool from the LXDE project (it does not require other parts of the LXDE desktop).
GTK+2 styles
Various applications and methods are available to change the GTK+ 2.x styles: (See GTK+3 section above for more.)
- gtk-kde4 — Application that allows you to change style and font of GTK+2 applications in KDE4.
- http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=74689 || gtk-kde4AUR
- After installation,
gtk-kde4can also be found in System Settings > Lost and Found > GTK style.
- GTK+ Change Theme — Little program that lets you change your GTK+ 2.0 theme (considered a better alternative to switch2).
- GTK+ Preference Tool — GTK+ theme selector and font switcher.
- GTK+ Theme Switch — Simple GTK+ theme switcher.
- For manual configuration see the GTK+ page.
GTK+1 styles
To change GTK1 styles you can install the gtk-theme-switchAUR package from the AUR.
Theme engines
A Theme Engine can be thought of as a thin layer API which translates themes (excluding icons) between one or more toolkits. These engines add some extra code in the process and it is arguable that this kind of a solution is not as elegant and optimal as using native styles.
GTK+-Qt engine
This one is for use by GTK+ applications running in KDE, which basically means this does not work in other desktop environments. It applies all Qt settings (styles, fonts, not icons though) to the GTK+ applications and uses the style plugins directly. This engine can be installed with the gtk-qt-engineAUR package, available in the AUR.
You can access it from the KDE System Settings under Lost and Found > GTK Styles and Fonts.
If you want to remove the engine entirely you need to uninstall it and also delete the following files:
$ rm ~/.gtkrc2.0-kde $ rm ~/.kde4/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh $ rm ~/gtk-qt-engine.rc
This is a Qt style which intends to make applications blend perfectly into the GNOME desktop environment by using GTK+ to render all components. To use this style you must have at least GTK+ 2.0 and Qt 4.3, although Qt 4.4 or higher is preferred. To enable this style, use:
- Qt Configuration: choose "GTK+" under Appearance > GUI Style.
- KDE4 System Settings: choose "GTK+ Style" under Application Appearance > Style > Applications.
- the command-line: edit the
~/.config/Trolltech.conffile by adding:
... [Qt] style=GTK+ ...
Tips and tricks
KDE file dialogs for GTK+ applications
KGtk is a wrapper script that uses LD_PRELOAD to force KDE file dialogs (open, save, etc.) in GTK+ 2.x apps. If you use KDE and prefer its file dialogs over GTK+'s then you can install kgtkAUR from the AUR. Once installed you can run GTK+ 2.x applications with
kgtk-wrapper in two ways (using Gimp in the examples):
- Calling
kgtk-wrapperdirectly and using the GTK+ 2.x binary as an argument:
$ /usr/bin/kgtk-wrapper gimp
- Modifying the KDE .desktop shortcuts files you can find at
/usr/share/applications/to prefix the
Execstatement with kgtk-wrapper.
- e.g. with GIMP, edit the
/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktopshortcut file and replace
Exec=gimp-2.8 %Uby
Exec=kgtk-wrapper gimp-2.8 %U.
aMSN with GTK+ or KDE dialogs
aMSN's uses the Tk toolkit for its user interface. To make it use GTK+ or KDE dialogs install the amsn-plugins-desktopintegrationAUR plugin available in the AUR. Other plugins can be found on aMSN's Plugin Page.
Run an application with a specific theme
You can use custom styles for specific GTK+ 2.x applications. To run an application with a specific theme use:
GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc firefox
This will launch Firefox with the QtCurve theme.
Using a GTK+ icon theme in Qt apps
If you are not using GNOME, run
gconf-editor, look under desktop > gnome > interface for the
icon_theme key and change it to your preference. As you're not using GNOME it's possible that you will have to set
export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome somewhere in your
Improve subpixel rendering of GTK apps under KDE
If the subpixel rendering in GTK apps is not as sharp as in native KDE Qt applications, try to add the following lines to your
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf (between the
<fontconfig> tags):
<match target="font"> <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcddefault</const> </edit> </match>
gtk-qt-engine does not work with OpenOffice
To make OpenOffice respect the Qt theme chosen with the GTK+-Qt Engine you need to add the following line to
/etc/profile (as root):
export SAL_GTK_USE_PIXMAPPAINT=1
Also make sure to select "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" in KDE4 System Settings under Lost and Found > GTK Styles and Fonts.
Qt applications do not use QGtkStyle
Qt will not apply QGtkStyle correctly if GTK+ is using the GTK+-Qt Engine. Qt determines whether the GTK+-Qt Engine is in use by reading the GTK+ configuration files listed in the environmental variable
GTK2_RC_FILES. If the environmental variable is not set properly, Qt assumes you are using the engine, sets QGtkStyle to use the style GTK+ style Clearlooks, and outputs an error message:
QGtkStyle cannot be used together with the GTK_Qt engine.
Another error you may get after launching
qtconfig from a shell and selecting the GTK+ style is:
QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.
According to this thread, you may simply have to install libgnomeui to solve this issue. This has the added benefit that you don't need to edit a file every time you change your theme via a graphical tool, like the one provided by xfce.
Users of Openbox and other non-GNOME environments may encounter this problem. To solve this, first add the following to your
.xinitrc file:
... export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0" ...
- Make sure to add this line before invoking the window manager.
- You can add multiple paths by separating them with colons.
- Make sure to use
$HOMEinstead of
~as it will not properly expand to the user's home directory.
Then specify the theme you want in the
~/.gtkrc-2.0 file using a dedicated application or manually, by adding:
... gtk-theme-name="[name of theme]" ...
Some tools only insert the following include directive in
... include "/usr/share/themes/SomeTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" ...
which apparently is not recognized by all versions of QGtkStyle. You can hotfix this problem by inserting the
gtk-theme-name manually in your
~/.gtkrc-2.0 file like above.
~/.gtkrc-2.0 file the next time you change themes.
If these steps do not work, install gconf and run this command:
gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme [name of theme]
If you further want to set the same icon and cursor theme, then you have to specify them, too.
gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme Faenza-Dark
This sets the icon theme to Faenza-Dark located in
/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Dark. For the cursor theme you first have to set the gconf value.
gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme Adwaita
Then you will have to create the file
/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme with the following lines:
[Icon Theme] Inherits=Adwaita
Themes not working in GTK+ apps
If the style or theme engine you set up is not showing in your GTK applications then it's likely your GTK+ settings files are not being loaded for some reason. You can check where your system expects to find these files by doing the following..
$ export | grep gtk
Usually the expected files should be
~/.gtkrc for GTK1 and
~/.gtkrc2.0 or
~/.gtkrc2.0-kde for GTK+ 2.x.
Newer versions of gtk-qt-engineAUR use
~/.gtkrc2.0-kde and set the export variable in
If you recently removed gtk-qt-engine and are trying to set a GTK+ theme then you must also remove
~/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh and reboot. Doing this will ensure that GTK+ looks for it's settings in the standard
~/.gtkrc2.0 instead of the
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On Wednesday July 17th, BeforeWeDo won the Founder Showcase Pitch Competition in front of 400 investors, founders, and press in Mountain View, CA. Represented onstage by Founder & CEO, Stefan Broda, BeforeWeDo empowers sexually active people to manage your sexual health at home.
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BeforeWeDo aims to reduce these numbers and curb STDs by making testing less scary. The company offers an online STD resource, personal health web app, and STD testing-kit delivery serivce for you to manage your sexual health at home, removing the embarrasment and hassle of current solutions. Prior to the Showcase, BeforeWeDo also won Bay Area Startup Weekend, Graduated from the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, and was an official partner with San Francisco Pride.
Watch Stefan's flawless pitch, and expert Judging Panel feedback from Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Noah Doyle (Javelin Venture Partners), Jon Soberg (Blumberg Capital), James Cham (Bloomberg Beta), and Ho Nam (Altos Ventures), below:
In particular, Stefan received glowing feedback from Noah;
"I admire the capital efficiency. This is the way healthcare businesses need to be built. Through a market-testing, capital-efficient, iterative fashion, rather than the traditional method of multiple rounds of funding before there is any revenue. You are a new model for the modern healthcare plight." - Noah Doyle, Partner at Javelin Venture Partners
Coming in second place as the official runner-up was Friend Trusted, a web and mobile app that helps people shop and compare home improvment estimates. You can see the video of Co-Founder Brenton Marrelli's pitch here.
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Remember when photo scanners were first released and everyone took great pleasure at scanning hard copies of old photos into digital media? Well imagine that on steroids, as now robotic technology has emerged that can automatically scan and copy entire books into digital media format.
Vienna, Austria-based company Qidenus Technologies, named after its founder Sofie Qidenus, is one of the companies that now offers high-end automated book scanning for libraries and other customers seeking to archive the world's books into digital media. While these products are not a consumer technology like digital photo scanners, scaled-down versions for the end-user market are in the works and soon will make it easy for anyone to turn their books into digital files.
For now, however, the high-end scanners are the domain of niche customers like large university libraries and archives, as well as large companies that want to turn technical or maintenance manuals into digital media. Down the line, their use will also be at the mercy of copyright restrictions in terms of what type of material can be scanned and reused without facing the ire of publishers.
To scan books into digital format, Qidenus has developed the Robotic Book Scanner (RBS), which features an entirely automated machine that turns pages, takes photographs of each page, and renders those photos into text.
The technology uses a robotic finger to turn the pages of books, which rest in a cradle and are flattened by glass for accurate scanning. Qidenus derived the robotic finger itself from the company's flagship product -- an automated page turner for sheet music that attaches to a musician's music stand, leaving his or her hands free for playing.
Digital photo technology that includes support for Canon DSLR, Nikon DSLR, and Hasselblad DSLR scans the pages, after which 30 algorithms in Qidenus custom software image-process the photos, and object character recognition (OCR) technology turns those images into text, Sebastian Schramek, a director at Qidenus, said in an interview.
Qidenus is not the only company offering automated book scanning to specialized customers; a spinoff of Xerox in the US and 4DigitalBooks in Switzerland also offer high-end automated book scanning to customers.
One of the biggest challenges to developing the RBS -- and to anyone developing this type of technology -- is to create a mechanical page-turning finger sensitive enough to handle different types of paper used in the books it's scanning, which can be hundreds of years old. "The big challenge during our development was how to work with such a homogeneous material like paper in books -- how can you make the machine work with different kinds of material and how can it automatically turn the pages," Schramek told us.
To achieve this, Qidenus developed an intelligent system of sensors that can adapt to the different type of papers and uses pressure sensitivity so it does not harm what may be fragile pages while it turns, he said.