On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:18 PM, David C. Rankin
At least in Gentoo the styles are installed with KDE Libs. I once had a problem and had to recompile, strange that it doesn't work for you. Have you tried launching kcontrol(or system settings) from konsole to see if the output mentions any problems with the styles files?
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1156 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_b2.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105920 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_b2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1186 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_default.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68352 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_default.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1194 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_keramik.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183544 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_keramik.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1329 Mar 3 01:43 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_knifty.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81248 Mar 3 01:43 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_knifty.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1180 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_laptop.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64096 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_laptop.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 69320 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_modernsys.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1194 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_plastik.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97312 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_plastik.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1188 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_quartz.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64208 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_quartz.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1186 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_redmond.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64600 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_redmond.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1170 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/
kwin3_web.la-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60096 Mar 2 23:50 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kwin3_web.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1352 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_b2.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90696 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_b2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1358 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_cde.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64872 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_cde.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63080 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_default.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1364 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_glow.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95448 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_glow.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1399 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_icewm.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94352 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_icewm.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1364 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_kde1.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78560 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_kde1.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 171328 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_keramik.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1399 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_kstep.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68256 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_kstep.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1376 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_laptop.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58984 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_laptop.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66016 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_modernsys.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41760 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_openlook.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82576 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_plastik.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1405 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_quartz.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63160 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_quartz.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59568 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_redmond.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1405 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_riscos.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152440 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_riscos.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111048 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_smoothblend.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1405 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_system.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67096 Sep 19 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_system.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/
kwin3_web.la-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55000 Oct 2 2010 /opt/trinity/lib/kde3/kwin3_web.so
If the files are there it should be throwing an error around somewhere.