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HuRU

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Wednesday, June 11th 2008, 2:53am

Themes from kde-look.org don't work

Maybe it's my fault for being used to installing desktop themes in Gnome, but I'm having a very difficult time installing and applying new themes for KDE 3.5. I have downloaded several from kde-look.org (under the Themes/Styles section), saved them in a Themes folder in my ~ directory, used Ark to extract them into a subdirectory, and this usually makes a .kth file appear. I go to Control Center -> Appearance and Themes -> Theme Manager, click Install New Theme..., navigate to the new .kth file, and after choosing it, the theme's name appears in the Theme Manager's theme list, but when I click on it, there is no preview and the Apply button does nothing. Where a preview usually appears, it says, "This theme does not contain a preview."

Some of the themes I have been trying, for instance, are:
Blue Planet (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Blu…t?content=53970)
Dark Blue (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Blue?content=79015)
Mint Kore (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Min…e?content=78217)

They all come with a .kth file already, so there wasn't a problem with extracting or running the ./install command or anything from a n00b like me. Oddly enough, I did get one to work, called Darkness (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dar…e?content=29314). I didn't do anything differently with it.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04. Maybe a problem with the directory I put them in?

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Friday, June 13th 2008, 5:49pm

This worked for me in most cases

When I tried to install the Kore theme, I ran into the same problem. A bit of digging around in the authors notes indicated that changing the name of the file by taking the numbers out of it and just renaming it "kore.kth" would work. It even began showing a preview then. I've noted that most themes refuse to show a preview although that's no indication that the theme isn't going to work. I have however, ran into themes that this does not work on.
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