Hello,
yesterday I met a colleague on the floor, who told me that after looking at the jailhouse theme of Suse 11.4 (I guess that’s
a kind of curtain? it really is remarkably ugly) he switched to Ubuntu. So well, I won’t go that far, but now I thought, let’s
switch the login-screen for something better.
Okay, I go to System Settings / System Administration / Login Screen, tab Theme.
Alright, there are six themes there, but I don’t like them. Great, there is “Get New Theme”!
Okay, I get one. But the list of themes doesn’t change — I would have expected, that the new
theme would now be automatically included. So well, a bit stupid, but apparently it wants you
to explicitly include it: so I click “Install new theme” — unfortunately, then there is no hint
where the themes have been stored! Okay, I download another one, hoping that during that
process I will be told what happens. Alas, there was a chance for such enlightenment with KDE3,
but likely no longer with KDE4 (which seems to go the Windows route, hiding everything; with the
little difference that under Windows the basic things actually work). So no hint where it stores these
login themes. Okay, I search the Internet, find various possibilities, /usr, /etc, and ~/.kde, ~/.kde4, but
in none of them can I find these themes! (I found the desktop themes, and I found the six themes which were already there,
but not the new themes).
So could somebody tell my where KDE hides the newly downloaded themes?
By the way, the information under “Help” seems either irrelevant or outdated (the directories mentioned
seem false anyway).
In general, I think most(!) KDE problems would be solved if KDE would be more “verbose”, enlighten the user
about its actions (while on the other hand, at least KDE4 seems to have the goal of “never say anything”).
Thanks for your attention
Frustrated Oliver
(Since September 2010 I try to become friends with KDE4, where I was really satisfied with KDE3.
But actually my dissatisfaction grows … by the way, I’m using KDE 4.6.0 under Suse 11.4.)