Actually, in order to change the KDE look & feel, we can go to System Settings and change: [Application Appeareance] Style Colors Icons [Workspace Appeareance] Window Decorations Cursor Theme Desktop Theme Splash Screen Additionally, we have the background image. I know the KDE way is different then Unity, by example, but contrast this to Unity/Windows way, when user just select, or download, a theme to apply. Even I, a KDE e.V. member, sometimes got confused to remember which option use to change my taskbar appeareance (or download new "theme" to it), by example. A first good movement should be, at least, unify all those options under a "Theme" icon in the System Settings panel. Then, create a theme manager, which can, internally, handle all these groups properly. If an advanced user want to change all details, of course he/she should be able to do. But for the average users, actually this is a bit hard. Reproducible: Always
Invalid since KWIn is simply the wrong group. You demand a Theme Manager kcm that picks preconfigured kwin decoration, plasma theme, wallpaper & GUI style - absolutely nothing prevents you or anybody else from writing one, so just start coding ;-) This should be fairly trivial and you can show your approach/results and call for integration into plasma-workspaces 2. If you need help, there's kde-devel 'ät' kde 'døt' org This has however absolutely no relation to the window manager, resp. its config modules itself (except that we do the decoration kcm among half a dozen others - not theming related at all) For suggestions about systemsettings ("unify all those options under a "Theme" icon"), please file a bug against systemsettings.
Changed to "systemsettings" group. Thank you for all clarification, Thomas :)
> user just select, or download, a theme to apply A prerequisite would be a standard theme package format, which does not seem to exist.
@Christoph, agree. Probably a package format and a single entry on System Settings should be a good goal.
This seems like what the new Look and Feel KCM in Plasma 5.1 does.