Hi, could someone help me with the manual installation of global themes from the KDE Store? I don’t need a specific theme, I just need some instructional material that shows me how to install each one.
it depends on the theme… best thing to do is look up the github page and find their install.sh script which will show you where everything goes.
That’s the thing, some don’t have instructions, for example this one, I also have no idea where to start, I’ve found that you have to use Kvantum but I would prefer a guide that explains why.
KDE global themes are typically stored in the directory ~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/. You may need to create this directory if it doesn’t already exist.
A KDE Plasma global theme is like an umbrella, which might (usually does) include (or require as a dependency) some other components like plasma style (under ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/<name>), icon theme (under ~/.local/share/icons/<name>), color-scheme (under ~/.local/share/color-schemes/<name>), and window decoration (under ~/.local/share/aurorae/<name>) or a kvantum theme (which requires installing kvantum engine, as well as kvantum themes under ~/.config/kvantum/).
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would you know what folders would i expect to find these other items in:
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cursors
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Splash Screen
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SDDM
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in case anyone else is wondering.
i don’t have either of these folders, probably because i don’t do much of any theming
~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/ # Plasma Style
~/.local/share/aurorae/ # Windows Decorations
i would be nice if all these weird locations could be consolidated into single, easily transferred, folder… say ~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/
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I’ve followed all the instructions, but I might be missing something as I’m still a beginner.
I created the directories as described, but the themes still don’t appear in System Settings. I also tried other global themes from KDE Store, including Orchis, but they don’t show up either—even after following this guide:
https://www.nhsoft.in/2023/06/how-to-customize-kde-plasma-KDE-plasma-customization-2023.html
The guide mentions that I should create the /home/.themes directory for themes to appear in System Settings, but that didn’t work for me.
On the other hand, Kvantum does detect the extracted .tar.gz folder correctly, but Plasma themes still don’t show up.
I also have a couple of questions:
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Do I need to download both the Plasma and Kvantum
.tar.gzfiles for a theme? -
What is the correct way to install a global theme so that it appears in System Settings?
Any help would be appreciated.
Yes, friend, that’s the answer for the global theme, but I had to figure it out the hard way. You could have been more specific, like: “extract the theme folder into the directory …it should appear there in System Preferences, and under the Global Theme option you can select it.”
It seems “fragmentation” is the destiny of the Linux world of “freedom”, for which I use symlinks as a workaround, but this adds to “duplication”, which is another similar issue as “fragmentation”. 
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Actually, a good global theme should pull all its components to install them in their appropriate directories, and then everything should work fine in System Settings.
Users, especially beginners, should better prefer such global themes instead of struggling with all those semi-finished and broken themes in KDE store.
This brings us to the need for more volunteer work to make KDE store better, for example, by implementing an improved system of quality assurance, classification etc. in KDE store.
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