kde 3.1 desktop themes

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Monday, August 25th 2003, 9:12pm

i went to a few different sites to download themes for my computer, and after i un-compressed them i couldn't get them to work. they are themes like wind**s would use. each thing in its own file (eg. background.png, startup.wav, exit.wav, xxx.themerc). since it is not all together in a .ktheme file, i can't use it? the sites i got them from said "KDE Desktop Themes" on all of them. i have kde 3.1. shouldn't it work?

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Kenneth

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Tuesday, August 26th 2003, 1:35am

You have to compile them, but they won't compile for me.

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kc2kfk

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Tuesday, August 26th 2003, 5:49pm

i found out how to use those themes. all you have to do is rename the .tar.gz (or whatever to .ktheme and it works

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Kenneth

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Tuesday, August 26th 2003, 11:35pm

You're kidding. I'm heading over to KDE-Look.org and grab some themes to try then.

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onsi

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Thursday, August 28th 2003, 9:27am

Didn't work for me

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Kenneth

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Thursday, August 28th 2003, 10:09pm

Sigh, this theme system in KDE sucks. Why can't they make it so that you can just install them like IceWM window decorations. They need to make it so that to install a theme or anything you can just point the theme manager to a compressed file like a .tar.gz or .zip, possibly renamed to .ktheme.

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seb

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Friday, August 29th 2003, 11:10am

i have never had a problem compiling any of my themes/styles.

./configure --prefix=/usr (MDK 91)
make
su -c "make install"

then go to Look-and-Feel.

Although it is true there should be better integrated theme support, compilation ensures better performance for your system.

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Kenneth

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Saturday, August 30th 2003, 12:22am

Hmm, I've never tried /usr as the prefix. I'm going to try and see if it works.

Update: I still got the same stupid Qt error. I have to try to find all the right RPMs and stuff and go through dependency hell if I want to get it to work.

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kc2kfk

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Saturday, August 30th 2003, 12:26am

when you rename the .tar.gz to .ktheme you have to make sure that the tar.gz file had the .themerc, jpg (or png) and possibly wav files. if the file has the .ktheme in it you only have to uncompress it. you can get the themes you have to rename to .ktheme at themes.freshmeat.net. then click on kde 1.x. if you click on anything else it should have the .ktheme in its onw .tar.gz file. again you have to make sure that the .tar.gz file contains .themerc, pix and possibly wav files.[/url]

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Kenneth

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Saturday, August 30th 2003, 1:13am

Ok, I tried isntalling a new theme on my network server, and it worked there. It also runs MDK 9.1 My geuss is that something didn't get updated right when I updated MDK from 9.0 to 9.1 on my desktop, because the MDK installation on my network server is a pure install and it didn't complain about some Qt error there.

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seb

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Saturday, August 30th 2003, 7:35am

yeah i hate updates - i have always vowed NEVER to upgrade. only clean installs for me

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