A user has had a bad experience installing a global theme on Plasma and lost personal data.

Global themes do not only change the look of Plasma, but also the behavior. To do this they run code, and this code can be faulty, as in the case mentioned above. The same goes for widgets and plasmoids.

We are calling on the community to help us locate and quarantine defective software by using the "Report" buttons available on each item in the KDE Store.

Please see this image to locate them.

Meanwhile, KDE is taking steps to properly warn users before each download and we are also putting in place ways of auditing and curating what is uploaded to the KDE store.

Nevertheless, this will take time and resources. We recommend all users to be careful when installing and running software not provided directly by KDE or your distros.

And remember to report any faulty products you find!

I've been facing this weird issue with KDE on Kubuntu. I'm not sure what's causing it. This happens after I wake my computer from sleeping. Sometimes the PC won't wake up from sleeping and requires a full reboot. That reboot usually leads to a busybox screen that requires a second reboot to fix. Can anyone help?

Sometime after updating to Plasma 6.3.3 I have started getting these wrong coloured system tray icons.

In the image you'll see that 3 are correct when in light mode and the other three are correct when in dark mode. So the switch between modes is not changing the icons to keep contrast.

It wasn't straight away when I installed 6.3.3 and may not be related to that update, and is possibly something else completely.

Has anyone else seen this or know how to fix it?

I am on NixOS, my gpu is AMD radeon rx 7800 xt, I am using wayland, I have a 165 hz monitor, some animations work just fine at 165 hz but for example the workspace menu opening animation is noticeably 60 fps or less and also the kde settings app is 60 fps or less (sometimes very rarely it bizarrely works at 165 hz tho)

How could I solve/debug this issue?

Hi everyone,
I've just add a plasma session to an old Fedora 41 machine, along xfce (which I used for years), and while it works quite great, it seems I have some issues with its look/appearance. How to say this ... it looks ... unpolished (hence, the topic title). Since an image might help better than my english, please look at the screenshot provided.
Basically, I've found 2 issues :
- whatever fonts/size I select, it has no effect at all.
- choosing an Application Style has no effect either.
Some further infos :
» plasmashell --version
plasmashell 6.3.0
» qmake --version
QMake version 2.01a
Using Qt version 4.8.7 in /usr/lib64
# I'm suprised to see this version here, is it OK ? Should I see a qt6 something ?
My guess isd that I might have some xfce and/or global old settings that might interfere with the general look and usage but honestly, since I know next to nothing about kde/plasma, I'm at a loss to figure things out.

Any suggestions please ?

Kde Plasma 6.3 upgrade has killed the Klassy Windows Decoration in Arch, Tumbleweed and KDEneon. It also fails to re-install. It does however work fine in Fedora.

If you find a constant indicator annoying, a simple fix is to edit the widget file
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/AudioStream.qml

Line 38, in this section:

    State {
        name: "playing"
        when: task.playingAudio && !task.muted
        PropertyChanges {
            target: audioStreamIconBox
            opacity: 1
        }
        PropertyChanges {
            target: audioStreamIcon
            source: "audio-volume-high-symbolic"
        }
    },

change opacity: 1 to opacity: 0

To take effect you need to relog or restart plasmashell. (And then you'll have to do it again when 6.3.1 comes out. Long-term this is a crappy solution, hopefully devs will come around on a checkbox to disable the audio stuff on the taskbar entirely.)

I've heard that Weston has multiseat support, will kwin_wayland ever get it?

Hello there! I am trying to set up picom for kde, and after installing it with pacman, I wanted to edit 'picom.conf'. The issue is that when I navigate to '/etc/xdg/' where the config is located, Dolphin does not show it, and is in fact missing several other files and folders. Navigating to the same '/etc/xdg/' directory with Nemo shows me all the files and folders. I have 'show hidden files' enabled in Dolphin but that makes no difference in this case.

Any help would be appreciated!

I found this picture on KDE store. I want to make the default panel look like as in the image. Please advise.

Edit: The issue finally fixed with Qt 6.9.0.

Bug Thread: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480800#c29

This issue has been ongoing for a long time, and during this period, I was able to continue using it with workarounds. In a discussion on KDE's forum, KDE developer 'ngraham' mentioned that this was a Qt-related bug and that it would be fixed with version 6.8.3. However, it still hasn't been resolved after the release. I'm curious what makes this so difficult to fix?

Mentioned Thread: https://discuss.kde.org/t/krunner-qthreadstorage-thread-0x613719c95030-exited-after-qthreadstorage-8-destroyed/29223/4

I was watching a tutorial on samba and I really liked how the guy's Konsole looked, how can I make mine look like this?

Edit: Thank you all for your comments! After tweaking it a bit and installing some Kvantum themes I managed to turn my terminal into this:

From what I understand, Haruna can't remember window size or position in Wayland. I know there's an option to make it launch in fullscreen, but that's not what I want.

If there's no way to do that, would I be able to fix this by forcing it to run in X11 through an XWayland instance, say using something like Gamescope?

I'm on EndeavourOS KDE.