- Backports contains a newer version of QtCurve
- The kde4-style-qtcurve package backports package contains the necessary RPM “Suggests” so that all things you need are installed automaticlly without having to find all necessary packages by hand
- With the backports package it’s possible to install systemsettings-qt-gtk without installing the buggy and unsupported gtk-qt engine.

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In Mandriva you install the kde4-style-qtcurve package. If you have urpmi’s “suggests” support enabled (it is by default), then this will automatically pull in both the KDE 4 and the GTK+ theme, and also systemsettings-qt-gtk, a tool which lets you choose the GTK+ theme to use in KDE.

I noticed that OpenSuse11.2 had this, but Mandriva didn’t (unless they just added it – I’ve been doing running updates since the beta and never installed the final release).

Maybe this is a silly question, but my Mandriva system is KDE-only (which is what you get when you install from the live CD). I’m sure GTK+ is there, but how do I get to this ‘GTK+Styles and Fonts’ thing without installing the whole GNOME desktop?

$ ps aux | grep -i -E "net_applet|networkmanager|nm-applet"
frederik 3942 0.0 0.3 220592 15496 ? S Nov15 0:14 nm-applet --sm-disable
root 12468 0.0 0.1 83352 4616 ? Ssl Nov16 0:03 NetworkManager --pid-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
frederik 15869 1.1 1.0 240152 43520 pts/8 S+ 22:47 0:03 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/net_applet --force

Here net_applet uses 1% of my memory (43M RSS), while NetworkManager uses 0.1% of memory (4.6 MB RSS) and nm-applet uses 0.3% (15.5 MB RSS): NetworkManager uses only half the memory that Mandriva’s net_applet needs! This is not very surprising if you know that NetworkManager and nm-applet are written in C, while net_applet is written in Perl.

(I think I would even need to add the memory uses of the mandi daemon to net_applet’s calculation to be completely correct, because mandi is required by net_applet if I’m not mistaken.)