Can't install new themes

[Niran Babalola]

The theme installation instructions you quoted are generic
instructions meant for installing themes that you download from
art.gnome.org or other similar sites. When you install themes using
Synaptic, the new theme should automatically show up in the theme
selection dialog. Some themes don't have a complete set of GTK
(application), icon, and Metacity (window border) themes, so those
typically don't show up in the main theme dialog. Go to theme details
and look through the various application themes, and Mist and Crux
should be there.

- Niran

On Apr 8, 2005 3:33 PM, Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying for a while now to install new themes to Hoary, but
> without success. There seems to be something wrong with the  process (or
> I'm badly missing something obvious). It should be straight forward -
> from the User Guide:
> ..............
> You can add a theme to the list of available themes. The new theme must
> be an archive file that is tarred and zipped. That is, the new theme
> must be a .tar.gz file.
> 
> To install a new theme, perform the following steps:
> 
>      1. Start the Theme preference tool.
>      2. Click on the Install Theme button. A Theme Installation dialog
>         is displayed.
>      3. Enter the location of the theme archive file in the drop-down
>         combination box. Alternatively, to browse for the file, click on
>         the Browse button. When you have selected the file, click OK.
>      4. Click on the Install button to install the new theme.
> ..............
> 
> I can see in Synaptic that I have for example the package
> gtk2-engines-mist already installed in my system, but I can't find
> any .tar.gz files belonging to this theme anywhere. If I go
> to /usr/share/themes/Mist, theres just one folder, gtk-2.0, that
> includes just one file, gtkrc. This file isn't a .tar.gz and the theme
> installation tool doesn't accept it saying "Wrong file format". The tool
> doesn't accept any other files belonging to Mist either.
> 
> I tried the same with gtk2-engines-crux too, but had no more success
> there. So what am I missing here? I like to change theme every now and
> then to match my mood, but it would be nice to have a few more themes to
> choose from.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ari
> 
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