On Friday 20 February 2015 15:16:55 Dan Youngquist wrote:
> On 02/20/2015 06:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 20 February 2015 13:39:46 Dan Youngquist wrote:
> >> Don't you have the "Install New Themes" button at the bottom of the list
> >> of themes in Theme Manager?
> >
> > This one didn't seem to work for me when I tried to do it prior to
> > telling Nicolas.  The Theme installer couldn't find the download.  I
> > haven't yet investigated why, but shall do so later and report back.
>
> Well, I have to admit I'd never done it before.  I just tried a few from
> kde-look.org, and found that many are in formats that don't work as is, but
> need to be compiled or something.  Those that download as a theme file with
> .kth extension seem to work, however.  

Thanks - hadn't got as far as discovering that!  I think I'll stick to 
backgrounds!  I've obviously been lucky - but when you think how diverse the 
origins of that artwork are, it's no wonder that it is not totally 
consistent.

> (...but some of them are rather 
> hideous, and defeat the purpose of a simple, functional desktop.)
>
> Just a caution repeated from the help file:  If you have any customizations
> you want to save, be sure to create a theme to save them before changing to
> another theme.

Lisi