Bug 176738

Summary: not able to change theme
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Marc Collin <marc.collin>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, wppan
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Marc Collin 2008-12-02 20:51:03 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

how to reproduce

go in the system setting

choose login manager

click on the theme tab, choose oxygen theme, click apply, click ok


a message box error is displayed

title: sorry - kde su

msg: command '/usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US' not found

this language is installed..... because is the language used in kde...
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2008-12-05 15:02:18 UTC
Here: launching "/usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US" starts the login manager module (but without root permissions, so it's read-only)

if I want to start "kdesu /usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US" , it complains about "--lang" as an unknown option and the configuration module isn't showed. Without "--lang en_US" , the module isn't showed (no error messages). This is another bug.

I suppose Suse added a workaround to automatically start that configuration module with kdesu in order to gain admin privileges, so this is a SuSe specific bug. Please, report this in Suse Bugtracker, and mark this bug as RESOLVED with resolution INVALID / or DOWNSTREAM.

See bug 175263. (related but for Fedora)
Comment 2 Dario Andres 2008-12-30 20:35:59 UTC
*** Bug 174326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-04-10 19:45:14 UTC
Any news on this ?
Comment 4 Ben Cooksley 2009-05-01 14:22:12 UTC
This is the result of downstream patching of System Settings by distributions. Please file bugs at the relevant distribution bug trackers to have the issue resolved.

Thanks.