Installing themese in KDE 3.3.2
 

Greetings,

Recently switched to Linspire Five-O and I'm having some problems installing KDE themes (version 3.3.2). Downloaded a few themse from kdelook.org, extracted them, and then tried to install with Theme Manager in the Look & Feel control module.

I navigated to the folder where I had extracted the theme and nothing showed up in the Themes Manager window -- it did not appear to find any themes. Scratching my head on this one.. really frustrating. Miss just being able to drag & drop in Gnome.

Thanks..

-Ben
PS - tried to post in the Linspire Support Community, for whatever reason it keeps on saying that my log-in info was incorrect.. even though it's valid.

I ran into the same thing the first time I installed some KDE extras. Sometimes the packages are called themes, but they're actually only styles or window decorations. Take a look in those menus and see if your new "themes" are listed.

I may be completely wrong here but I vaguely remember that you do not extract the files. Sometime back while installing a theme (or something like that) I remember reading somewhere that the theme file must be a .tar.gz file.
So you could do this, click on the install new theme (or similar button) browse and select the themename.tar.gz file and click OK
Again I may be wrong here, and I am not sure if this is correct or not. I just remember reading it somewhere.

Hope this helps!

All the ones I have installed do come as .tar.gz, but have to built with configure,make,make install.

Thats how most KDE themes (and most KDE apps) are installed unless you are using theme manager themes.