it might be possible.  Qt programs like VirtualBox, FreeCAD, and 
DraftSight pick up the current CDE color palette.

On 06/24/2015 02:50 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
> I read often messages that are about the mailtool, and what follows
> routinely is the
> correct answer of Jon that this needs major code additions and better
> use other programs
> like thunderbird.
>
> But of course other programs do not blend nicely with the desktop as far
> as the looks are concerned.
> You can see here:
> http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/tmp/test-gtk.jpg
> <http://myria.math.aegean.gr/%7Eatsol/tmp/test-gtk.jpg>
>
> that it is possible to integrate at least colorwise all gtk apps that
> are important for a modern desktop.
> Although the desktop is in Greek, you can see Gimp, LibreOffice,
> MozillaFirefox and Thunderbird
> (I even open a menu on thunderbird to show the color change of the item
> below the mouse cursor)
> blending nicely with the Golden color theme of CDE which I currently use.
>
> OF course I will publish the way to do it. I hope I will have it ready
> in the next days.
>
> But the question here is if CDE has to provide some mechanism to do this
> (for example I do this
> kinda manually and if one changes the CDE color them, I have to redo
> everything from scratch).
> I feel that CDE people are often reluctant of changes. However, without
> visually integrating
> modern apps, CDE will not attract new (age-wise) users and programmers
> and I think it needs them.
>
> Antonis.
>
>
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