Hey guys,
Kind of a noob question. How do you install themes from kde look. In some other distro when you wanted to change a theme you would have a “get new theme” button that would open up kde look in a window and let you choose what theme you want to install.
Where can I do this in Opensuse?
What themes? There are plenty of things for which you can get themes, schemes, styles from KDE-look. But In general it should be the same as with other distros, i.e. somewhere in systemsettings (AKA Personal Settings). (Themes for the login-screen, though are a little bit more tricky.)
Oh, and before I forget you don’t necessarily have to use “Get Hot New Stuff” (that is what it is called shrug). There is some really good stuff in the openSUSE repos.
Right click>Desktop Activity Settings>Get new wallpapers will give you access to lots of wallpapers. Installing them simply adds them to your collection. You then have to select one from those you have installed.
System settings>Appearance>Style>Workspace>Get new themes gets you themes and so on.
In KDE it is Launcher (Yes, the green menu button in your panel) -> Personal Settings -> Appearance
There you can customize almost everything - yes you can get new themes directly in that for few customizations…
What I want to know is what to do when the theme you want isn’t listed in there - for example: the “Bare Naked” theme (Bare Naked KDE-Look.org)?)… I can’t seem to find any installation instructions for it. How should I properly install that theme, please?
Well, you * can * download the theme, unpack it with Ark or so, and then move what you unpacked into the folder ‘~/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/’ (this is in your home-folder). Afterwards, it should show up on your list Workspace themes.
Usually there is a Get New Themes, Get New Wallpapers, Get New Icons and such buttons available in those configuration screens… This will automatically search through kde-look.org and you can download them with just a click…
Tried that, but it doesn’t list the “BareNaked” theme - only “Naked” shows up, and that’s not the same theme. “BareNaked” is a tweaked version of “Naked” with even more transparency, and that’s what I need.
Tried that as well - it does show up; I selected it and hit ‘Apply’, but nothing happened. It’s still displaying the “Naked” theme I had applied previously.
Ah! Success:
I had to delete /home/me/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/Glaze completely, and then recopy Bare_Naked back into there with overwrite all, then reboot… and when the thing came back up, lo and behold! Nice nasty Bare Nakedness now prevails.
Guess that only leaves the remaining detail of how to get rid of the blasted cashew, and then everything would be perfect! Is there a copy of IHateTheCashew! available somewhere that would work with SuSE 11.3?
After reading the comments on this plasma theme on KDE-Look, it appears that this plasma theme does not even work anymore. I should’ve done that before.
Oh, so you did get it to work! Good.
Yes; I recalled having read somewhere that the /Glaze folder clashes with the “BareNaked” theme somehow, so the subsequent de-Glazing solved the problem and fixed everything.
Everything but the cashew - that’s next. I really need a copy of IHateTheCashew! for SuSE 11.3, in order to get rid of it. Is there a ‘special’ repository somewhere that may have that?
Stealth Cashew. But if I remember correctly I had to install some additional packages from the repositories in order to get it to work. But I also experienced so plasma-crashes with it.
I have used the ‘IHateTheCashew!’ plasmoid in the past, and it worked very well - got rid of the stupid cashew completely, and did not cause any stability problems. So if someone still has an .rpm for that, I could sure use a copy, thanks.
Whoops! Never mind - I just installed the applicable .rpm intended for OtherDistro, and it worked… soblem prolved. Desktop appearances are all now happily cashew-free, and good riddance to it!
I have been trying to install Windows Themes and icons in KDE Plasma (OpenSuse Leap 42.1)
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013482
I have managed to extract both Windows Dartk and Light 9.9 Themes as well as Windows Icons folder.
I have tried to put them in .icons, .themes folder but it simply does not work. The system does not see them.
Except some Windows icons. Not all are replaced when choosing the Icon Theme.
How can I properly (manually or automatically) install themes in KDE Plasma? Should it be any specific way dependent on the Distro or is it universal for all KDE Desktop?
Thank you in advance.
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:16:01 +0000, GTh wrote:
> I have been trying to install Windows Themes and icons in KDE Plasma
> (OpenSuse Leap 42.1)
> https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013482
>
>
> I have managed to extract both Windows Dartk and Light 9.9 Themes as
> well as Windows Icons folder.
>
>
> I have tried to put them in .icons, .themes folder but it simply does
> not work. The system does not see them.
> Except some Windows icons. Not all are replaced when choosing the Icon
> Theme.
>
>
> How can I properly (manually or automatically) install themes in KDE
> Plasma? Should it be any specific way dependent on the Distro or is it
> universal for all KDE Desktop?
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
The site you link to is for the GNOME desktop, not KDE or KDE Plasma.
You’ll want to look for a KDE theme. The two aren’t compatible. 
Jim
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Hi
In this case the the quoted theme covers multiple DE’s including plasma5 
@OP Generally if you look in the archive file there is a readme file which explains what to do… In this case it’s on github, so have a read here GitHub - B00merang-Project/Windows-10: Windows 10 Light theme for Linux (GTK)
Thank you very much for taking your time and precision.
Also for the link.
As far as Inremember I have already tried to extract the given folder in Dowload so that the install.sh were placed directly in the download.
Then I pointed the folder download in terminal and run bash …etc. No results.
I will give a try following your precious link and the instruction there à la letter.
be assured you will be the very first person to be informed of the results.
PS
How about placing the Windows Icons folder? To .icons or elsewhere in user/share…?