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module allows you to customize your desktop Plasma theme and to replace theme items
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with items from other themes or from files.
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<para>Desktop theme items consist in panel theme item, kickoff theme item,... all in default
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<title>Quick start</title>
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<para>First download one or several themes you want to use to customize your
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desktop items by clicking the <guibutton>Get New Theme...</guibutton> button.</para>
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<para>You can then start customizing each item you want to change with a new theme,
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for example you can have the panel in Glassified theme, ...</para>
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<para>When you have finished, click the <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> button. You will then get an information
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message that tells you to enable the <guilabel>(Customized)</guilabel> theme on the
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Desktop settings dialog.</para>
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<screeninfo>The information message</screeninfo>
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<imagedata fileref="message.png" format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>The information message</phrase>
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<para>You then need to change the Desktop settings to <guilabel>(Customized)</guilabel>
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in order for the theme details to be applied to your desktop.</para>
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<screeninfo>Desktop Settings Dialog</screeninfo>
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<imagedata fileref="desktop-settings.png" format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>Desktop Settings Dialog</phrase>
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<para>Click the <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> button on the dialog above to get the desktop settings applying your
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<sect2 id="custom">
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<title>Creating a custom theme</title>
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<para>When the module is opened, it will show items from the current desktop theme.
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If you would like to start customizing with a different theme, select it from
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the drop box above the list of theme items.</para>
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the drop box above the list of theme items. This theme from the drop box is the starting
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theme, the base for your new customized desktop theme.</para>
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In the list of items, for each item you would like to replace, select
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<title>Removing a theme</title>
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Select the theme you would like to remove from the drop box above the list of
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theme items. Click on the <guilabel>More</guilabel> check box. Click the "Remove Theme" button to
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theme items. Click on the <guilabel>More</guilabel> check box. Click the <guibutton>Remove Theme</guibutton> button to
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remove the selected theme.
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You can share your newly customized theme with the community by exporting the
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theme to a file. Select your customized theme from the drop box above the list
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of theme items. Click on the <guilabel>More</guilabel> check box. Click the "Export Theme to
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File...". Enter the name of the zip file to which the theme will be saved.
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of theme items. Click on the <guilabel>More</guilabel> check box. Click the <guibutton>Export Theme to
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File...</guibutton>. Enter the name of the zip file to which the theme will be saved.