[Natty] Kubuntu system settings downloads KDM themes but cannot install

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

The KDM themes setup in system settings has a "Get new themes" button that fires a "Hot new stuff" extensions manager.
This extension manager allows downloading new themes from the online gallery and then shows them as supposedly "installed", however KDM themes selection box doesn't show these newly "installed (?)" themes at all.

(Furthermore I can't figure out where they have been downloaded, if they actually have...)

See attached image to better understand the issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: systemsettings 4:4.6.2a-0ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Fri Jul 22 13:16:42 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (110 days ago)

[Szo (szo)]

Version: 1.0 (using KDE 4.5.2)
OS: Linux

Installing a new theme via "Get New Themes" (and probably via "Install new theme" too) doesn't work, because the sudo authentication is done after pressing apply, until that everything is done as the non-root user, who has no write permission to /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
click get themes and click install on a theme.

Actual Results:
nothing happens, expect for the "installed" theme's install button becomes uninstall.

Expected Results:
the new theme should be installed and listed to be selected.

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.35-22-generic
Compiler: cc

I'm not sure if it's a kubuntu specific bug.

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 255063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 255946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 252201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[P (p92)]

still true with kde 4.5.4

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 259279 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

pasted this in and got syntax error near token |

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[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 262524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Pablo Michael Silva (pablomis-gmail)]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

thanks

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[Nemeskey-david (nemeskey-david)]

Still a problem under 4.6.0.

[dave2008 (dave2008713)]

Still a problem under 4.6.1!!!
Someone plz fix this.

[Avcascade (avcascade)]

Consider how especially maddening it must be for new users who try to install a new login theme and then don't see it appear. This bug needs to be squashed, badly.

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

Can you please tell me what to do with this please?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Andrew <email address hidden>wrote:

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> Consider how especially maddening it must be for new users who try to
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> new login theme and then don't see it appear. This bug needs to be
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[dave2008 (dave2008713)]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Can you please tell me what to do with this please?

change the permission of themes file

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 272268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

got the fix and thanks

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[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

Got bitten by that fscking bug !

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

That's actually KDE bug 255453 : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255453

The workaround is to start "systemsettings" as root, i.e.:

$ kdesudo systemsettings &

...then KDM themes will download and install properly.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Closing in favor of upstream report, this ultimately needs to be resolved in KDM itself rather than Kubuntu.

Thanks for the report anyway. :)

[Mihai Sorin Dobrescu (msdobrescu-gmail)]

Still a bug in 4.7.0.

[terry b (tbohaning-gmail)]

This bug is still in Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 1.

[8p-k26-gj (8p-k26-gj)]

Since I am currently overhauling the entire KDM Theme selection dialog, I will have a look at this issue in the next few days.
Maybe I can achieve something similar like the “Apply button with the key icon” on the main dialog, dunno if GHNS supports something like that though.
I’ll see what I can do.

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

Up ! ^

[=0yP)F]|L(0YNrv (ccgjsz8xdbdyyvy-deactivatedaccount)]

Present in Kubuntu 11.10 final release, with KDE 4.7.2. The bug is really maddening! I don't like having to `kdesudo systemsetting` for a workaround. But, new users are bound to use this often, and get hit by it. It's really frustrating. :(

[Robert Downing (robert-downing)]

I second James Roe. What a pain in the posterior! How hard can this be?

[Oswald Buddenhagen (ossi-kde)]

*** Bug 288997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Gannet (ken20001)]

Hey, I'm newly found this bug in Kubuntu 11.10, KDE 4.7.4. And it's still not fixed. We'll work without themes! It's a pity ^(

[Cyberbat83 (cyberbat83)]

I confirm this on gentoo linux with systemsettings-4.7.4

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

Thank you it has been fixed

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[Cyberbat83 (cyberbat83)]

(In reply to comment #27)
> Thank you it has been fixed
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Tell me please what KDE version has it been fixed in?

[Johu-h (johu-h)]

> Thank you it has been fixed

In which version it will be fixed? 4.8.1? 4.9.0?

[Cyberbat83 (cyberbat83)]

Problem still exists on 4.8.1

[Wolfgang Griech (wolfgang-griech)]

problem still exists on 4.8.2 - really annoying, guys :(

[dave2008 (dave2008713)]

annoying +1.

[Wolfgang Griech (wolfgang-griech)]

on kubuntu 12.04 "sudo systemsettings" does the job, at least partially, some of the other themes can be loaded then, and also work. But quite a few ones are not possible to load at all, some fcked up links or alike with appropriate messages..

guys, this is quite a mess, and after such a long time still an resolved issue, for such a trivial thing, wow..

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 300574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 302030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Holly B (becker-holly)]

Also having this problem on Arch Linux with KDE 4.9.0

As a workaround, I can chmod o+w /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes and System Administration -> Login Screen -> Theme -> Get New Themes will install kdm themes.

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 306475 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Andrei ILIE (andrei-ilie)]

Bug confirmed against 4.9.2 ... Not even a warning message :)

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 313008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[God-g (god-g)]

I want to confirm that this is still present in 4.10.0.
My suggestion is that it should ask for root permissions before installing them.

[Brallanaguilar (brallanaguilar)]

I have this bug with KDE 4.10.2 :(

[Tetite (tetite)]

I have this bug with KDE 4.10.3 :(

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

thanks

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[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 322974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

*** Bug 324202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Dan-mossor (dan-mossor)]

Still here in 4.11.3? Why would I want to switch to KDE when this is a rather obvious bug that's been outstanding for over 3 years?

I am being affected by this bug in KDE 4.11.3 on Fedora 20 TC3.

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

That's what I really hate in KDE. Loads of bugs, very well identified, reported for years, confirmed and re-confirmed... And nobody ever gives a shit about fixing them. KDE bug tracker is managed by Dave Null...
So yeah, this bug has been outstanding for more than 3 years. Holy shit.

[SysGhost (sysghost)]

This bug is still present in version 4.12.3. Quite annoying.
Over and over and over I have to help new users tackle this bug. Some of them even left KDE due to this.

[Apcomptec (apcomptec)]

It's still present in KDE 4.12.4

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

I believe KDE bugs are considered "digital art" and are not meant to be fixed. Ever.

[ill (illumilore)]

I think the kde developers should re-evaluate their decision that bugs are digital art and consider fixing them. It would make the software easier to use for people.

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

problem solved

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[Christoph-maxiom (christoph-maxiom)]

Please stop polluting the bug tracker. This bug is not easy to fix with the current infrastructure. If you believe otherwise, provide a patch.

[tlcasey100 (tlcasey100)]

solved thanks

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[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

kdm reached it's end of life with Plasma 4, whose last bugfix release was last August 2015, we are sorry we did not get to fix this bug.

We encourage you to try Plasma 5 and its recommended display manager SDDM and it's control module kcm_ssdm.

And please do not hesitate to file bugs against it if you find any.

Sorry again we could not fix your bug.