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I have to compile my themes?
Why do I have to compile my themes? I thought the point of themes and themes managers was that I could just point the manager to the new theme, and it would install (copy) it into the right location?
I tried to compile and install a theme, but the theme manager doesn't see it. What is the required prefix (--prefix) for Mandrake & KDE 3.1?
Thanks for your help.
this is the biggest headache ever. I've had to download a dozen packages/rpm's and it still hasn't gotten past ./configure. Now it says I need to install a package I already have (kde libs). After I dig for the answer in my SuSE manuals and forums, etc. I'm sure something else will be malfunctioning. On the pages with the hoardes of themes, why isn't there a list of what installing that theme will require and how to fix these problems/find the packages needed?!
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Did you hear a Windows XP installation cd will play satanic messages when you spin it backwards?
That's nothing. When you spin it forwards it installs Windows XP.
development packages installed?
You should install the devel RPMs of Qt and KDE. Then it should work. Basically you need qt3-devel, kdebase3-devel and kdelibs3-devel. If you want to be sure you should install all KDE's development packages. Note that you have to install the development packages corresponding to the installed package versions of Qt/KDE.
Just run the following:
check if the KDEDIR variable is set:
echo $KDEDIR
this command should print the base path of the KDE installation. It is not set in each distribution (SuSE 8.x: /opt/kde3)
If not you should type:
export KDEDIR="directory"
eventually you should try QTDIR in the same way. But this should be set.
type:
./configure
make
su root
<type root password>
make install
That's all. Quite simple if you me ask. Consider that it is platform independent!
Regards
Lucher
printed in 100% recycled electrons
I can do all those steps, but no new themes appear in my theme manager.
Cheers
Seriously, KDE needs to implement themes and styles better. Icons are really easy. You don't even have to extract the compresed files. They need to make installing themes and stles the way they do icons.
"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."
I was having the same problem with my installed themes not showing in the manager.
I saw in one of the INSTALL files that you needed to use --prefix=/usr (/usr can be replaced by whatever location KDE is in. For most this seems to be /usr)
During the 'make install' I saw a small one line warning that told me to run 'libtool --finish /usr/local/kde/lib/kde3' . After I did that all the themes I had installed showed up in the manager.
I think the exact path needed for libtool may change but again I suspect that it is the one I wrote for most people.
Hope this helps you as much as it helped me.
Thursday, May 23rd 2024, 4:56pm
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