I'm using kde4.8.2 on Mageia 2.
I wanted to change the login theme.
I went to the theme tab and selected a couple of new themes via the 'Get New Themes' tab.
But they do not show up in the list of themes in the themes window.
When I click 'Install new themes" I get an entry dialog with no indication as to where the downloaded themes have been saved.
Is something missing here?

Did you launch System Settings as root or not?

No, I did from the icon.

Then try to change the theme from root:

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kdesudo systemsettings

or, maybe, in your distribution,

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kdesu systemsettings

Since login themes need to be installed by root, user's «Get New Themes» doesn't affect anything. I don't know why is this tab shown to a non-root user: AFAIK, it doesn't work and can't work.

Thanks for that. I can now get downloads to appear in the themes window but to install one of them, I need to know where they are located! It beggars belief that it isn't intuitive.

Oh! I found it at:

/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes.

Thanks for you help.