Slippi Dolphin uses GTK on KDE Plasma (Qt Desktop) whilst Upstream uses Qt

[Jazztache]

Summary

Stock Dolphin (namely the AUR build) uses Qt 6.6 for it's UI. However, it seems that Slippi Dolphin is using GTK, being translated to GTK somehow. This is using the current build of Slippi, an up-to-date install of Arch, on the official AppImage on the Slippi website.

Expected Behavior

Slippi Dolphin should look exactly the same as regular Dolphin Emulator.

Current Behavior

Slippi uses GTK to display it's UI in contrast to the stock build of Dolphin which uses Qt.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Slippi
2. Install Stock Dolphin from the AUR
3. Open both and compare.

Video Example

https://youtu.be/kpJ_UrKqyMQ

Environment

KDE Plasma on Arch Linux 6.6.2-arch1-1

Extra Notice

Currently, KDE Plasma Breeze is behind a version for theming. This is why Fusion instead of Breeze is used for Stock Dolphin's theme. Once Plasma 6 releases, this will fix itself.

[ryanmcgrath]

Ishiiruka (the fork that Slippi's stable build uses) is old and uses GTK via wxWidgets - nothing is being translated.

The mainline beta is using QT since it's what mainline Dolphin uses. That's the future, there is likely nothing that'll change in Ishii.

Edit: Slippi Dolphin should look exactly the same as regular Dolphin Emulator. <--- I also suspect this'll never be a hard and fast rule, since they are separate projects.

[Jazztache]

Would it be out of the question for (maybe sometime much further in the future) for Ishiiruka to be rebased on the latest Dolphin build? wxWidgets seems to be out of date from what I can gather and it might be a good idea to consider it if UI technical debt every becomes an issue.

Also clarifying the whole exactly the same thing, obviously some tabs and buttons will be moved and changed, but mainly the UI toolkit should be the same, so that desktop themes can integrate properly.

[ryanmcgrath]

I think you've misunderstood my comment: Ishiiruka would ultimately just not be a factor once the mainline-Slippi beta build becomes the official Slippi build (whenever it happens, there is no official ETA). That is effectively the rebased version.

These are already usable via the Slippi Launcher, etc.

[Jazztache]

Oh! So there's an active beta branch/seperate build that is based on an up-to-date build of Dolphin? Sign me up! :D Where do I go to get it?

[cobalt2727]

https://github.com/project-slippi/dolphin