How!?!?!?!?!?!

Linux Styling

Wow, you're talented! That is a theme alright, but that particular one seems to be just the source code, it must be compiled. :) However, if you followed my guide on setting up repositories in Mandriva, you can just download the lipstik theme from your package manager.

KDE-Look.org Theme Manager Packages
 
Linux Styling

Ah, man these themes are so complicated :\, i got this theme now: Domino_Milk KDE-Look.org

Followed the instructions, i tryed following the instructions on it, got to style in theme manager then style, and i dont see Domino when i placed the file in /home/will/.qt :\


Ahhhgrrr, i got like 4 theme downloads so far, i click on install new theme, and i look on desktop and it cant see any of them :mad:
 
Linux Styling

Heheheh, just do a search in your package manager for "theme" and install them all! That should give you something to get started with. :)
 
 Vistesque-Mod for Lipstik KDE-Look.org

How do i install that damnd theme?!?!?!?!, i have tried looking at the instructions, but dont understand them, i have been trying to get a theme to work for about 5 hours now, its driving me craaazzzzyyyyyyy, i just dont get it, some say they install yet there not there :mad:, i really want this theme tho in the link, looks so clean.
 
The instructions are pretty simple...

Extract the package

Replace Style/lipstik.cpp with Style/lipstik.cpp in your lipstik-directory.

Replace Style/config/lipstikconf.cpp with Style/config/lipstikconf.cpp in your lipstik-directory.

Replace Style/config/lipstikconf.h with Style/config/lipstikconf.h in your lipstik-directory.

Change to your lipstik-directory and run "configure" (you don't need to if you executed "configure" before), "make" and as root "make install".

This last step is to be done on the command line.
cd /lipstick/directory/whereever/it/is

then
./configure

then
make

then (as root)
make install


Lots of text will fly by and when it stops look for the word error near the flashing cursor. If no "errors" are there then it should have worked fine. You've compiled from source!
 
No but before those instructions it tells you to download this other lipstik package, and i dunno what to do with that, i also dont know were the lipstik directory is.
 
You dont have listick installed?

This is the beauty of source! The dependancies.

You'll have to install lipstick.

If your using lipstik 2.2 look at the note daihard left under the heading of "compile error"
 
how do i find lipstik, i typed it into the package installer thing or w/e it's called, it did not find it i dont think, i have set up repo's tho, i know that i have a lipstik style installed, but not a lipstik theme.
 
Willz, there is no need to make 3 threads covering the same topic!

I don't want to be rude but looking at your previous threads you really need to read what other people are posting. The answers are right in front of you but you are obviously skim reading.

Please, SLOW DOWN!! :) Take your time and make sure you understand what other people are saying.

Anti-Trend has already suggested in your other thread that you search the package manager for themes. Have you tried that yet?
 
Yes i have tried that, infact i will do it again:
I did not get Lipstik.

I downloaded LipStik from the link in the readme, i don't know what to do with it now tho.

Sorry for making another thread, this is infact the second thread i made on theming, i did nto think before i posted it that i have one allready for styling.

Damn, at the moment it's a big decision, either keep on pulling my hair out trying to get theming and other things sorted for linux, or go back to windows and re-install every 3 weeks :(
 
Theres more to computing than looks, you really shouldn't be switching back to windows just because you're having problems with themes.

just install all the kde/theme packages you can find using Mandriva's package manager, and maybe lipstik will be installed.

Failing that, find a different theme which can be installed easily.

Edit:  Lipstik KDE-Look.org theres lipstik 2.2. You'll need to do what one of the commenters said in that mod's page to make it work since this is 2.2
 
So i gotta try to install that in the link you posted before installing the theme i posted to?
 
I am trying to install lipstik 2.2 following this in install:
----- Building from sources:

First make sure that you have both the QT and KDE development headers
installed. (qt and kdelibs devel)

Then unpack the sources somewhere you have writing rights.

In a terminal (konsole, xterm, eterm, etc.), type :

./configure

make

(Then, as root):
make install

--

If any of these steps fail, do:

make -f Makefile.dist

It wont work, i change directory to were the files are, then do ./configure, it does this:

Code: 
[will@localhost lipstik-2.2]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for kde-config... /usr/bin/kde-config
checking where to install... /usr (as returned by kde-config)
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking whether g++ supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... no
checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes
checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... no
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

As you can see i get an error at the bottom, am i doing somthing wrong?
 
Seeing as you were moving files around earlier with the add-on theme thing didn you follow the post daihard left under the heading of "compile error".
 Vistesque-Mod for Lipstik KDE-Look.org


He said....
Hi.

Just so you know, lipstik-2.2 will not compile after you copy the three files over to the respective directories as instructed in your readme. You will need to add the following two lines in lipstik.h of the original lipstik package (found in the style subdir).

bool _enableVitesque;
bool _compressedMenus;

Once you do that, lipstik-2.2 compiles (and works) beautifully. :)
Click to expand...
 
move 3 files :s, i did not see that in the read me, were is that? what files do i move ;s

Origional lipstik apckage ;s, am i missing somthing, i donwloaded that mod thing and the lipstik 2.2 packaged in the lipstick 2.2 i dont see a lipstic.h file, i also dont know were lipstik is on the hdd.

Ok found it, were do i put those 2 lines tho, top or bottom?
 
Willz, before you were trying to compile a mod before the program the mod was for.The initial mod you were installing involved replacing 3 files.

from the mod readme
Replace Style/lipstik.cpp with Style/lipstik.cpp in your lipstik-directory.
Replace Style/config/lipstikconf.cpp with Style/config/lipstikconf.cpp in your lipstik-directory.
Replace Style/config/lipstikconf.h with Style/config/lipstikconf.h in your lipstik-directory.
Click to expand...

I take it you did this?

Then daihard added that if you copy these files over and try to compile lipstik at a later date (possibly a re-compile) it doesnt compile correctly. But he discovered that if you add....
bool _enableVitesque;
bool _compressedMenus;

to lipstik.h the problem is solved.

In lipstik.h there will probably be a long list of entries starting with bool_
Id try adding the extra 2 entries at the bottom of the bool_ lines.

Thing is does your distro normally install in /usr or /usr/local?

You might have to replace ./configure with ./configure --prefix=/usr

I cant say for sure because ive not used your distro, which ever it is.

Where was your lipstik.h file?
 
Ok, were is the lipstik directory on the HDD?, so i dont need to compile it right?, i am only adding lipstik so i can get that cool viste looking theme.
 
You almost never need to instll with the --prefix argument since the configure script will install in the right place. (its not like an LFS system).

Make sure that the package gcc-cpp is installed, since it seems the cpp compiler isn't installed.
 
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