With the release of 8.10 one of my biggest gripes is the lack of the ability to theme KDE3 applications. This has been mostly because of 8.10's lack of the KDE Control Center, also known as kcontrol, which is no longer available in the intrepid ibex repos. This HowTo covers how to bring some of kcontrol's functionality back to 8.10.
Step 1: Download kcontrol from the hardy release.
Code:
For amd64:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-backports/amd64/kcontrol/download
For i386:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-backports/i386/kcontrol/download
Step 2: Extract the kcontrol package into a temp directory.
Code:
dpkg -x kcontrol_3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2_i386.deb ~/temp
Step 3: Change into the directory.
This is to verify that the deb package extraction worked.
Code:
cd ~/temp/usr/lib/kde3
Step 4: Copy several kcontrol modules to /usr/lib/kde3
For the most part you'll just need the icons, colors, fonts and style modules from kcontrol.
Code:
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_icons.* /usr/lib/kde3
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_colors.* /usr/lib/kde3
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_fonts.* /usr/lib/kde3
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_style.* /usr/lib/kde3
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/share/applications/kde/icons.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/share/applications/kde/colors.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/share/applications/kde/fonts.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde
sudo cp ~/temp/usr/share/applications/kde/style.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde
Step 5: Changing KDE3 Applications to match your themes.
Open a Terminal and issue the following commands.
To change KDE3 icons:
To change KDE3 colors:
To change KDE3 fonts:
To change KDE3 style:
There you go... enjoy.
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