Installing icon themes?/ydl 6...

[butters]

I am having a heck of a time installing new icon themes! I used to do this easily with an older version of YDL. Use the CP/Appearance/Icons/install new theme/locate it and voila!. I think the files have to be 'tar.gz' format to use the KCC. And they must have a proper directory structure, and an 'index.theme' file at the root of the Directory. My understanding is if they are not in that format, ie 'tar.gz' and in another format ' zip, bz2 ' you unpack them and install into /usr/share/icons/ or /.kde/share/icons/. For the life of me all I get when I try every method is 'the file is not a theme archive or something like that...
Any Help???
TheMindWorking...

[Noons]

You can use this method, works for me: Open up System---->Preferences----->Theme and then just drag and drop your tar.gz files in there.

Cheers.

[butters]

There is no System----> Preferences----> Themes ??

~k

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[aguilarojo]

I am having a heck of a time installing new icon themes! I used to do this easily with an older version of YDL. Use the CP/Appearance/Icons/install new theme/locate it and voila!. I think the files have to be 'tar.gz' format to use the KCC. And they must have a proper directory structure, and an 'index.theme' file at the root of the Directory. My understanding is if they are not in that format, ie 'tar.gz' and in another format ' zip, bz2 ' you unpack them and install into /usr/share/icons/ or /.kde/share/icons/. For the life of me all I get when I try every method is 'the file is not a theme archive or something like that...
Any Help???
TheMindWorking...

Hi Butters:

Unpacking the various themes which exist can be tiresome especially as some developers appear to use the most unusual means of compressing them. I've noticed developers using rar, tgz, tar and others; it takes a while to learn how to handle them; I recommend keeping a list of guides/notes as reminders to oneself that is easily available just in case. Of course the question of where to place the icons after you've unpacked them remains. I recommend that they are placed in:

/home/user account name/.icons

The above means that if my user account name is gandalf then I place the newly unpacked icons into:

/home/gandalf/.icons

Themes likewise would go:

/home/gandalf/.themes