Ralph GL
08-07-2001, 07:49 AM
Okay, KDE has a nice little theme manager that does all of the thinking for you... that is, until you want to uninstall the theme. Unfortunately the docs on kde.themes.org only reference the theme manager. Can anyone here give me a quick run dowm of the way KDE deals with themes, how it references different icons/backgrounds/sound events/window borders, so I have some idea of how to remove unwanted ones and possibly compile my own?
Cheers
Ralph
(who is, as you may have guessed, still firmly entrenched in Windows at this point)
Apostata
08-07-2001, 10:28 AM
Though this may not answer all of your questions, if you want to uninstall a theme (assuming the KDE Theme Manager spreads the relative icons/pics around when you choose a new theme) simply switch to another (or the default which is nothing), then highlight the out-going theme and click Remove on the side of the Theme Manager.
My beef with the Theme Manager is that it can take a long time on some systems simply to preview a theme...and in the end I usually just change my background colour and call it a day :)
As for what/how it all happens behind the scenes, I'm not really sure. Themes - just like in Win9.x - come in compressed single files that have all the associated gizmos inside. I can only assume that when you "Remove" a theme that's installed, KDE only removes the distributed, uncompressed files...not the originator.