Bug 176738

Summary:	not able to change theme
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Marc Collin <marc.collin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	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
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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.