On the system settings, desktop theme page you can select the overall theme OK. However, if you try to customize a themes using the "details" tab it doesn't seem to work right. For example, if your overall theme is "Laughlin" but you want widgets to be something else, like "Aya" and you choose that, *all* desktop items, the panel, widgets, kicker etc, all assume a blackish theme. If you log off and back on it doesn't help. Also, if you just set widgets back to the original Laughlin setting, it has no effect. You have to return to the theme tab, select another theme and then select Laughlin again to clear the "dark" theme. I do have a few dark themes installed such as "slim glow" and "oxygen" but they aren't selected. A quick search of the bugs.kde.org found no mention of this specific problem. Note: Even if a non-existent item like "Analog Clock" (that I don't have) is selected for customization, it causes all items to be customized to the dark theme. Oh yes, this is kde 4.6.1 and f14/x86_64 I am using. Never tried this with earlier versions. Also, see this on more than one system (both use the default radeon/mesa driver, which might be relevant). Finally, this problem sounds somewhat similar to this posting to this list earlier this year: http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg09038.html -gene _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org