KDE Doesn't Pick Up Colorschemes yet There Present in the Settings

General system Newbie
#1

I’m having a really weird issue where if I install a global theme it installs everything correctly, and when I apply it applies everything, but once I go into my color schemes tab it says “color scheme is not installed, selecting default one instead”

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Normally it works fine but with some apps, it will default to breeze light and it hurts my eyes so bad. Are there any fixes?

#2

Which colorschemes are you having trouble with?

#3

Any downloaded within a Global Theme. It installs the respective color scheme but for some reason, it doesn’t connect that color scheme to its global theme? It’s a strange bug.

#4

Can you check where they installed to? They should be under home/.local/share/color-schemes

#5

Delete that color scheme. click on get new color schemes. download and install it again.

That big copper colored warning means something.If your internet is not that great when installing a global themes from settings things can go wrong.

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#6

Also if you continue to get errors installing this way you can go to kde-look and download and install them manually or with ocs-url

#7

It’s with every single global theme I try and download. I genuinely have no idea, but if downloading it manually fixes it I’ll do that. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

#8

Yep they seem to be there.

#9

Have a go doing it manually and see if it works, I don’t normally download themes through the settings as I have had annoying errors this way before also by doing it manually you know where the files are

#10

So I just installed 2 random global themes and don’t have this issue at all. I know you said it is happening with all you have tried - out of curiosity which themes are these? Another thing I dont think anyone has suggested is to try a reboot (although you shouldn’t need to) and see if this helps

#11

It is always best to log out and then back in on KDE when you make these kind of changes.

#12

Any DE in general too

#13

Issue seems to be with the ambient-blue theme. I just tried it, however i am able to set the color scheme on its own. I will have a better look at it soon.
The error is in the global theme, in the defaults file it is looking for Ambient-Blue where as the file is AmbientBlue

If you change the line to this it will work setting as a global theme
ColorScheme=AmbientBlue

#14

Link to a working theme