Setting theme KDE

[Angelo_Citter]

good morning, i have a question: how can save a theme set in KDE?

[cscs]

Hi and welcome,

What do you mean exactly?
If the theme is set surely you already have it saved on disk somewhere.

[Matthew_Dee]

There’s no built-in way to save a full KDE theme so that you can restore it later (which is what I think you’re asking for?)

Someone did post a bash script to copy everything (don’t have the link sorry, but it was a LOT of files that needed to be copied), but again that’s not build into KDE, it’s a manual process.

[Angelo_Citter]

ok, thanks, that’s what I meant.

[cscs]

@Matthew_Dee

Someone did post a bash script to copy everything

This one?

Transfuse - A script to backup and restore KDE Plasma configs

Make new installs feel like home in seconds. Transfuse will let you easily copy and/or compress desktop configurations and more from one user or system and apply it to another. Optionally supports exporting and applying native and foreign package lists as well. While package lists are dependent on the pacman package manager all other functions should be agnostic - meaning you can create or apply backups from Arch to Ubuntu, from Ubuntu to CachyOS, CachyOS to CachyOS, or just about any other t…

[Angelo_Citter]

@Transfuse - A script to backup and restore KDE Plasma configs

Make new installs feel like home in seconds. Transfuse will let you easily copy and/or compress desktop configurations and more from one user or system and apply it to another. Optionally supports exporting and applying native and foreign package lists as well. While package lists are dependent on the pacman package manager all other functions should be agnostic - meaning you can create or apply backups from Arch to Ubuntu, from Ubuntu to CachyOS, CachyOS to CachyOS, or just about any other t…

The problem is that if I want to create a light and dark personalized theme and move from one to the other without having to reset color pointers icons etc.

[cscs]

Oooooh.

Well then I would set everything the way I like and then export that as a ‘Global’ (previous ‘Look-and-feel’) theme. Which I remembered being easier. The tools are provided by plasma-sdk package.

[Angelo_Citter]

@cscs

Well then I would set everything the way I like and then export that as a ‘Global’ (previous ‘Look-and-feel’) theme. Which I remembered being easier. The tools are provided by plasma-sdk package.

Thanks, what do you mean by exporting? I installed the plasma sdk package, but I don’t understand how to export the theme settings.

[cscs]

lookandfeelexplorer started from the terminal.
(There is no .desktop file for launcher)
Its a bit unwieldy .. but make sure to click almost all the buttons, start a new ‘plugin’, fill out the sections, select ‘layout from current plasma setup’ and then save.
You should then have your new global theme available (and located at ~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel).

Also here is a link that may provide some extra explanation..
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Create_a_Global_Theme_Package

[Angelo_Citter]

@cscs

lookandfeelexplorer

Super !!! thanks thanks thanks…

[cscs]

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention ..

You can use lookandfeeltool to apply different ‘Global’ (/lookandfeel) themes.

lookandfeeltool --list

lookandfeeltool -a org.kde.breeze.desktop

lookandfeeltool -a org.kde.breezedark.desktop

(of course using your own themes)
This can also be aliased;

alias daytheme="lookandfeeltool -a org.kde.breeze.desktop"

alias nighttheme="lookandfeeltool -a org.kde.breezedark.desktop"

Or put in a script or similar.
That can then be put in a widget or keyboard combination or something else to easily ‘switch’.

[Angelo_Citter]

@cscs

lookandfeeltool --list

thanks for your support.