Ok, I go to kdelook and dl a set of icons. In this case the osXIcons.tar.gz. So, this should be simple (or so I thought). KDE-menu=>look & feel=>icons. Click on the little browse button, select the file/package, in this case home/<user>/Downloads/klook/osXIcons.tar.gz. it shows in the path bar, click install. and ........ NOTHING. Checked the permissions, and chmod to rwx just in case. Still NOTHING. Same with the themes. <theme-whatever>.tar.gz or in the case of mosfet-liquid0.9.4.tar.gz was ungziped as per the install notes to mosfet-liquid0.9.4.tar. And, yes you guessed it, NOTHING. Arrrrgggghhhh..... Any hints as to whether I'm just being brain dead or theres a problem with users and installing themes (like the default settings in my new 8.0 are so locked down that I have to go throught and config all my users parameters)or something new to kde3? TIA, Curtis