There have been multiple threads about how to get dark themes for kdenlive, but I just don't succeed.
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/kdenlive-dark-theme/78225/2
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=265&t=123160
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=269&t=122317
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=265&t=118388
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When I click Settings>Theme I only get 'Default' and 'Configuration' throws the following error: "Cannot start Colors Settings panel from KDE Control Center. Please check your system..."
So I simply want a dark colored theme for kdenlive (like e.g. Blender). I use the LXDE desktop with Ubuntu 15.10 for kdenlive 16.01. I don't mind if my whole desktop is in a dark colored theme.

How should I do this?

checkout this bug report:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346608

the error message you get is because you need to have the plasma desktop installed. unfortunately kdenlive relies on some kde tools for some things to work. but that option doesn't affect kdenlive's features it is just for eye candy.

Thanks for the tip!
Now I can select a theme of choice.
Plasma desktop doesn't run well on my PC (in fact, it just doesn't work...) but now in LXDE it works.

Did the following:

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sudo apt-get install plasma-workspace
sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop

Not sure if the latter (plasma-desktop was really necessary, but now it works at least.

you don't really need to run the plasma desktop just have it installed. i use gnome and it looks great.

farid wrote:you don't really need to run the plasma desktop just have it installed. i use gnome and it looks great.

As my computer isn't one of the newest, I prefer to use LXDE, at least when working with kdenlive. Fast, stable and simple . KDE and gnome also work but are a bit on the slow side. But the KDE Plasma desktop and the gnome desktops are visually more appealing indeed.

Blue Fox wrote:As my computer isn't one of the newest, I prefer to use LXDE, at least when working with kdenlive. Fast, stable and simple . KDE and gnome also work but are a bit on the slow side. But the KDE Plasma desktop and the gnome desktops are visually more appealing indeed.

agree! i sometimes use pekwm when i need some extra ram for blender or kdenlive.

If I recall right, you should need the entire plasma desktop installed; just the Breeze and Breeze icon theme packages. when I was running Ubuntu Gnome, I didn't have Plasma installed. I had am the Breeze metapackage and (I think) breeze-icon-theme.

might be worth trying if you don't want to have multiple desktop environments on your PC.

Cheers.

Just wanted to add that I just had exactly this problem on Ubuntu Gnome and travlr_drupal is quite correct you don't need the whole desktop. I just used synaptic package manager to search for breeze and installed. Dark theme was immediately available in Kdenlive.
Thanks for this!

Tried installing the Breeze icon theme, but it didn't make any difference UNTIL I installed the Plasma Desktop and Workspace as mentioned above.

Now I have several Themes to choose from in Kdenlive running within GNOME 3.20

Thanks to Blue Fox who posted the "fix" for this "bug".