KDE Global Theme is still not truly global
KDE Global Theme is still not truly global
For eg. I installed Blur-glassy theme today to check with all options selected in my Fedora 40 installation. Still I needed to install the blur option separately and colors too. After everything still Dolphin and Discover do not look anything like the picture shown.
I have seen this while trying out many themes. They either partially deploy or sometimes not.
Is it because they were built for KDE 5 and this is 6 or something?
it's probably because you haven't installed Kvantum and enabled the Kvantum theme linked in the theme's description.
I got it installed, not sure if it was nature of theme or if I did it correctly. It felt really off to me, luckily it was on a test user which I deleted now. Installing and configuring Kvantum felt like blindly groping in the bathroom with soap all over face.
I won't be experimenting with it anytime in near future.
Sad to hear you had that experience. Someone posted some blog posts about complete KDE themes here a while back. I had very good results following the instructions in those blog posts. Each one had icons, window, plasma, gtk, wallpaper, and whatever else was needed. I stuck with "shades of purple" for ages, which would normally not be my first choice of theme.
Is Kvantum worth using?
Kvantum allows much more complex theming, compared to what you can achieve with regular Qt themes, but whether it's worth it or not, that's for you to decide
I thought Kvantum is not longer actively developed / maintained?
https://github.com/tsujan/Kvantum/releases
latest release on June 1st.