Theme customization causes "dark" theme always

Gene Smith gds at chartertn.net
Sun Apr 17 06:19:05 UTC 2011


On the system settings, desktop theme page you can select the overall 
theme OK. However, if you try to customize a themes using the "details" 
tab it doesn't seem to work right. For example, if your overall theme is 
"Laughlin" but you want widgets to be something else, like "Aya" and you 
choose that, *all* desktop items, the panel, widgets, kicker etc, all 
assume a blackish theme. If you log off and back on it doesn't help.

Also, if you just set widgets back to the original Laughlin setting, it 
has no effect. You have to return to the theme tab, select another theme 
and then select Laughlin again to clear the "dark" theme.

I do have a few dark themes installed such as "slim glow" and "oxygen" 
but they aren't selected.

A quick search of the bugs.kde.org found no mention of this specific 
problem.

Note: Even if a non-existent item like "Analog Clock" (that I don't 
have) is selected for customization, it causes all items to be 
customized to the dark theme.

Oh yes, this is kde 4.6.1 and f14/x86_64 I am using. Never tried this 
with earlier versions. Also, see this on more than one system (both use 
the default radeon/mesa driver, which might be relevant).

Finally, this problem sounds somewhat similar to this posting to this 
list earlier this year:
http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg09038.html

-gene



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