This KDE Theme Manager screen allows you to select the desktop Theme package you wish to install.
Themes customize some or all of: the appearance of the various screen elements (window borders, buttons, title bar, panel, etc.), the color scheme and background wall papers, sounds associated with various events. and standard icons.
The column on the left lists the available Theme packages. The packages shown are either global themes in the system Themes directory $KDEDIR/share/apps/kthememgr/Themes or local themes in your personal Themes directory ˜/.kde/share/apps/kthememgr/Themes. The packages can either be gzipped tarballs or unpacked directories.
Click on a listed Theme to select it; its name will be highlighted and (if available) a picture showing its components will be displayed in the top right-hand box. Information about the Theme will be displayed in the lower right-hand box.
To activate the highlighted theme package, click on Apply. The contents of the package will be extracted to your Theme manager Work directory ˜/.kde/share/apps/kthememgr/Work, and the various components will be copied to the KDE configuration directories which control the desktop. (Go to the next Contents screen to select which components of the Themes package to activate)
Note: the image files for the various window elements (buttons, titlebar, etc.) are placed in the directory ˜/.kde/share/apps/kwm/pics/ and panel elements go in ˜/.kde/share/apps/kpanel/pics/. To completely remove a Theme, you may need to delete the contents of these directories.
Clicking on OK will also apply the selected Theme package, and then close the Theme Manager.
If you click on the Extract button, the contents of the highlighted Theme package will be extracted into the Work directory without being applied to the desktop. This is useful if you are building a modified Theme package. If the Theme package is global, a local copy will also be added to your personal Themes directory.
The list of available Themes can be modified as follows:
Click on New to create a new entry in the list. This cretes an empty subdirectory for the new Theme in the local Work directory.
Click on Remove to delete a local Theme. (This button is inactive when the highlighted Theme is a global Theme.)
Click on Import to import a Theme package into your local Themes directory.
Click on Export to export the highlighted Theme package.