Bluecurve icons on Slack 10/KDE

gypsy_rabbi · 10-16-2004, 11:17 AM

Any ideas on how to get Bluecurve icons for KDE on Slackware 10.0?

I've tried the following:

Peeking into Fedora's rpm and pulling out just the icons. Somehow I can't get KDE to recognize that they're there.
Downloading a set from kde-look.org and themes.kde.org:
http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?pa...651eb54042c17f
but the package seems corrupt.
Building from Fedora's source. Couldn't get it to work.

That's already too much time spent on a prettiness issue

, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

philipacamaniac · 10-16-2004, 11:29 PM

Is there a way to explode the RPM into a folder? Or maybe try rpm2tgz? Because, once you have all the icons out on the table, it is REALLY easy to make a kde icon theme.

Go take a look at /opt/kde/share/icons/crystalsvg and see the folder layout, plus the index.theme. That's not too much trouble, if you can the Bluecurve icons out of the RPM.

I'm gonna go give it a try; if successful, I'll post a howto or just post the archive.

philipacamaniac · 10-16-2004, 11:51 PM

Yup! Just rpm2tgz the redhat-artwork rpm, and then untar the tgz (DON'T INSTALLPKG!!!). Drill down to the icons directory, and you'll find the Bluecurve folder. Copy that to /opt/kde/share/icons/ and you're good to go.

As for the rest of the artwork, well, same applies. Just figure out the appropriate slackware locations versus fedora/redhat.

philipacamaniac · 10-17-2004, 12:49 AM

Screenshot

gypsy_rabbi · 10-17-2004, 02:40 PM

Thanks, Philip, but that didn't quite work either.

It works if I start a KDE session as root, but as any other user only the kmenu icon changes (and I usually replace that with Tux anyway). All the other icons---Home, Trash, etc.---are still KDE defaults. I checked the permissions on the Bluecurve icons and they're all world-readable, so now I have no idea what's going on.

Oh, well, guess I should just quit worrying about icons.

Thanks a lot for your help, though!

GR