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Hi,

I do not see the default desktop theme in System Settings - Desktop Appearance - Desktop Theme. There are only 3 available: Air, Air for netbooks and Oxygen. The default one (current) is not listed there.
As far as I remember, the default theme in Mandriva was located in /home/username/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme, but in Mageia this folder is completely empty... But all newly installed themes are put there.
So if I change the theme and decide to roll back to the default one, where should I look for it?

Thank you.

I think Oxygen is the default theme.

But where are the actual desktop theme files located?
There is nothing in .kde/share/apps/desktoptheme, but all new themes are installed there, and their files do appear there too. But I can't see any Oxigen or Air files there.

Thank you.

/usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/ <-- here are located packaged themes (via rpm )

So I was looking for it in a wrong place...

And I have one more question:

In /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme there are 6 folders:

air-netbook
Amarok-mockup
Aya
default
oxigen
slim-glow

Only default and oxigen contain more then 1 folder inside, all the rest have either widgets or lancelot inside and nothing else...

In the list of available themes in KDE control center I can see only 3: Oxigen, Air and Air-netbook. Which folders from the list correspond to these 3 themes? Oxigen is oxigen, default is not seen in KDE center I guess, and what about the rest?
And will I see the "default" theme in the KDE control center if I copy everything from /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default to .home/user/kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/default?

Thank you.

/usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/defaut is used to provides the « default » theme for apps when they're used in « another » theme desktop if they don't have a specific theme.
For example lancelot might don't have a theme available in slim-glow, so it will use the « default » theme....
Also as you probably know /usr/share/apps/ is used *before* ~/.kde4/share/apps/ , copying something from /usr/share/apps to ~/.kde4/share/apps won't make it « work » better you'll just be able to remove it from the theme configuration tool (by remove i mean only the one available in ~/.kde4/share/apps/... )

Thank you very much for the explanations.

But what is the name of the theme installed by default - right from the box? Oxigen and Air look different from what I see on my desktop.
If it is that "default" thing from usr/...., how do I roll back to it if I change the theme via KDE System Settings?

Sorry for returning to this old topic...
I may be stupid but I can't figure out how to switch back to the initial desktop look (as it is installed out of the box) after I tried some other theme (say, Oxygen from System Settings/Workspace Appearance/Desktop Theme). I switched to Oxygen (or Aya or anything) but what should I do to revert the desktop look exactly to its initial state?
Thank you.
Mageia1, KDE.