Bug 286394 - Theme Tab does not display all installed themes
Summary: Theme Tab does not display all installed themes
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: visuals (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2011-11-12 07:57 UTC by Gaurav Bhandari
Modified: 2012-04-26 16:41 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Screenshot of a bug (614.17 KB, image/png)
2012-04-22 12:12 UTC, Kyrylo Bohdanenko
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Description Gaurav Bhandari 2011-11-12 07:57:54 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

I have installed 10 themes using Get new Themes button. The Themes are showing as intalled but are not getting displayed in the list of installed themes

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Get New Themes from Get New Themes Button
2. Install any theme.
3. once the theme is installed it will display Uninstall button at that moment press "Close"
4. try to find theme in the list. the new theme is not there

Actual Results:  
The Theme was not displayed in the list

Expected Results:  
The theme must be displayed in the installed list
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-11-13 01:13:12 UTC
Which themes do you refer to? Plasma themes, KWin themes, icon themes, etc.?
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2011-12-08 12:34:12 UTC
If you can provide the information requested in comment #1, please add it.
Comment 3 770edward 2012-04-21 10:48:31 UTC
me too!!
Comment 4 Kyrylo Bohdanenko 2012-04-22 12:12:16 UTC
Created attachment 70566 [details]
Screenshot of a bug

Also affects me: kubuntu 12.04 x86_64, kde 4.8.2. The bug refers to "Desktop Themes" (i.e. Plasma Theme). See the attachment.

Also the button "Install from file" is missing. Is this a reason for new bug report?
Comment 5 Kyrylo Bohdanenko 2012-04-22 12:17:18 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> The bug refers to "Desktop Themes" (i.e. Plasma Theme). See the attachment.

I mean that new themes are not shown in the list even after X restart.
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2012-04-25 11:54:46 UTC
Thanks for the update. Reassigning to plasma developers.
Comment 7 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2012-04-25 15:09:54 UTC
@ elvenfighter@qip.ru: did this Amakage theme really install itself? I get a link to a HTML page when trying to install it although then KNewStuff marks it as "installed" when it's not (which would be a bug).

So please check this theme is indeed locally installed.

Second, what other themes also do this? I personally installed several and they work and appear rightly in SystemSettings.

"Get New Themes..." gets themes that are uploaded to kde-look.org but unfortunately there are no checks on the validity of those themes. Some are broken, others are not stored on kde-look.org (hence the redirection to another html page). Any problem with specific themes should be reported to their author through the kde-look.org theme page.
If you reproduce this bug for ANY theme then there is a bug but as I said, I installed several themes and they show (Neon Glow, Glassified, Arezzo, Helium One, to name a few).

@gaurav.bhandari85@gmail.com: what are the 10 themes names please?
Comment 8 Kyrylo Bohdanenko 2012-04-25 16:42:17 UTC
@ annma@kde.org: You can see that not only 'Amakage' theme is not displayed. 
I've opened  _installed_ themes section and Amakage + Helium are there (see screenshot).
But you were right - other themes are installed sucessfully (So it's probably a theme bug).

But how I can install downloaded themes without 'Install frm file' button?
Comment 9 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2012-04-25 16:55:51 UTC
You download the theme directly from its webpage (kde-look.org or http://opendesktop.org) and unzip the theme in ~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme/ to install a theme. (.kde or .kde4 depending on what is used by your distribution)

I can't try Amakage now as OpenDesktop.org is down...
Comment 10 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2012-04-26 08:40:47 UTC
Can we close this as it's only some specific themes that are not following the rules to be used with Get New Themes?
Comment 11 Kyrylo Bohdanenko 2012-04-26 16:17:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> Can we close this as it's only some specific themes that are not following
> the rules to be used with Get New Themes?

Hm, I think that themes, which were installed with errors should be marked somehow (not just 'Installed'). But this is slightly related to the bugs title.

+ I miss the 'Install from file' button. But this can be can go other bug report.

So if there's no work to be done on this report I think that it is worth closing.
Comment 12 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2012-04-26 16:41:51 UTC
Thanks a lot for the follow up!

I think there could be some improvement in KNewStuff dialog: the Installed button should be enabled only if the theme is installed (this is at the level of KNewStuff which deals with Get Wallpapers, Get Screensavers,...)

Also as a wish you can open a bug report asking for an "Install from file" in this System Settings Plasma Theme Manager.

And all wrong themes authors should be notified that their theme fails to install with Get New Themes.