styles and themes not working

[Kevin McMahon]

I have compiled and installed numerous themes and styles and they do not
> appear in the control panel under themes or styles... I even tried
drag
> and drop or even navigate to them in my home folder but they do not
> respond at all. Can someone tell me why this is happening, I would
like
> to try the styles and themes that I download from kde-look.org
> Hopefully someone has an answer, this is frustrating to say the least.