Login screen themes

[L V Gandhi]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com> wrote:
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 06:02:08 AM L V Gandhi wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:47:21 +0530
>> >> Subject: Login screen themes
>> >> From: lvglist at gmail.com
>> >> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I have installed logi screen themes. It shows in install themes
>> >> windows as installed. But in the list it does not appear. What is
>> >> going wrong?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> L V Gandhi
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>> > Was this in the preview? It may be that it is not showing up in the
>> > preview
>> > just because it is a preview of what the theme will look like, not the
>> > actual thing. And is this the login screen, or the boot screen with GRUB?
>> >
>> > ---Ryan
>>
>>  Itr is not preview. I am talking about login screen of users not boot
>> screen.
>>
>> In system settings|login screen,there is a tab for theme. Whenyou
>> click getthemes, the dialog shows as installed. but the theme list
>> does not show it. we have to download and install it. I feel install
>> button in get theme  windows is not working to install themes. It only
>> can be used toget themes from those sites.
>
> From my experiences, some of the themes are not properly packaged by their
> creators when they post them on kde-look.org -which is where the installer
> tool gets them from.  Although if the theme is not packaged at all, I believe
> the tool is supposed to say something to that effect and allow you to download
> the files.
>
> Do all themes do this?
> --
> Clay Weber
> http://kubuntuforums.net
> http://claydoh.com
Whatever theme I tried to install, it shows as installed, but do not
show up in the list so that we can select it. After I downloaded the
file, I could install it by using ths install menu in the theme tab. I
think install option in getthemes windows is not working as it should.


-- 
L V Gandhi