Change KDE Icon theme from XFCE

I just installed okular and some other KDE applications since the GNOME3 ones currently look pretty bad in my XFCE desktop. The GTK/QT themes are easy to get to match, but there's a KDE port of my icon theme, and I don't know how to change to it. Do I have to install KDE's control center / system settings program and if so what package is it part of or is there just some file I can hand edit?
Thanks.

Well, so far I figured out that the KDE control center is part of the kdebase-workspace package which brought in about 85MB of dependencies and other stuff. So I'd still prefer to find a textual solution, but when I tried diffing my .kde4 folder before and after, I got different results different times, so I'm still working on that. Will post if I figure anything out and perhaps whip upsome bash script to change it.

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Last edited by cardinal-biggles (2013-07-02 21:19:46)

Copy the icon theme folder to /usr/share/icons
(ex. if your icon theme folder's name is Oxygen-Refit, it should be at /usr/share/icons/Oxygen-Refit)
Then edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde and add the line baghera suggested. It works here.
Note that you need to do this to .gtkrc-2.0 (yes, thats without -kde) too if you don't use gtk-qt-engine to change gtk themes.
Also note that every time you change the gtk theme (either via systemsettings or via 3rd party utility) this line is autoremoved from the corresponding file(s).
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Hello all,
Me again. Is there a way to change the icon colors in Thunar? I copied the gnome-wine, gnome-wise, etc. from my Xubuntu test box and copied them to /usr/share/icons. I can see they show up under System Settings, Appearance/Icons. I can even select them, but only the icons on the desktop change colors (call me crazy, but I like the green folder icons). However, the icons in thunar are still the grayish brown standard icons.
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--nixIT
Last edited by nixIT (2011-06-03 16:17:00)

in xfce4 (4.8.0.3, the version I am using in ubuntu):
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Xfce4 Does Not change icon theme

Hi arch community,
I have installed xfce4, Liking it. But when I wanted to change the icons, I wanted to use the Cheser icon theme, so I followed the instuctions here:
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I didn't read that the original Faenza Icon theme is needed, too. Now the next problem is that in Thunderbird the folders are brown and don't use the blue look.
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