KDE Theme Manager
KDE 3.3 will feature a brand new theme manager. For the time being, you can download
it from here and try out.
News
2004-02-17: released version 0.4 with a few bugfixes, details below
2003-12-31: released version 0.3 with a few new features and a couple of bugfixes; notice it's a packaged
version from current CVS
2003-12-23: checked sources in kdenonbeta/kthememanager
2003-12-22: we're featured in this Dot article
2003-12-22: released version 0.2, for new features see below
Features
- can install and remove themes
- can create themes based on user's settings
- theme format based on XML
- currently handles desktop settings (wallpaper, colors etc.),
icon theme, cursor theme, sounds, WM decoration, Konqueror and Kicker background, screensaver
New in version 0.2:
- support for colorizing the Kicker background
- support for relative URLs, as the README states
- installing themes via DnD, even remote ones
- installing themes via context (service) menu from Konqueror
New in version 0.3
- the theme manager now correctly handles installing and creating
new themes over existing ones
- support for widget styles (or the name thereof)
- added new details buttons to launch idividual kcm style-related
modules
- write/read the current theme and preselect it at startup
- the preview pixmap is now generated dynamically
and taken at full size
New in version 0.4
- added support for screensaver
- fixed saving kicker transparency
Screenshots
(from version 0.2)
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| Theme Manager user interface |
Creating a new theme |
Removing theme |
Download
Current version: 0.4
[kthememanager-0.4.tar.bz2]
