cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/22016442

Not an arch specific question but I recently had to reinstall archlinux and there are many default themes (mouse themes, icon themes, and sddm themes) that I dont remember the names of that are missing. Did I do something incorrect in the installation or did KDE remove these themes from the default?

For example breeze is the only icon theme i have available. There were definitely more options before.

I could obviously use the get themes feature but I shouldnt have to if they exist somewhere on the system or if i can just use an older version of plasma

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    The Arch Wiki says you should install it via the plasma-meta package for a full-fledged installation, and just the plasma-desktop package, if you want a minimal install. Is that maybe where you chose the wrong one?

    • LoreSoong@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      I used the plasma-meta package and to be sure I just now used arch-chroot on a flashdrive and removed plasma entirely. Cleared pacman with -Scc and then reinstalled plasma-meta and all its dependencies.

      Also breeze-gtk and oxygen-gtk were the only themes in the long list of dependencies. Maybe they removed them to shorten install times and shrink the size of the DE install?

      Youre comment is greatly appreciated. it also gave me an idea. Im next going to install downgrade and check if the dependencies change to add more themes in a previous version.

      I could also be crazy and manually installed a bunch of themes one night. but i barely put any work into the look and feel of the DE so im almost 99% sure this is not the case

      Update this did not work downgrading breaks dependencies and will not let me since force was depreciated…

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        Hmm, thinking about it now, I actually don’t have much beyond the Breeze (Light/Dark) themes preinstalled either. I have the openSUSE themes, because I am on openSUSE.
        Aside from that:

        • In Window Decorations, there’s the Plastik theme.
        • In Application Style, there’s “Fusion” and “MS Windows 9x”.
        • In System Sounds, I’ve got “Ocean” and “FreeDesktop”.
        • And in “Login Screen (SDDM)”, I have “Elarun” and “Maldives”.

        I believe, the Oxygen themes got removed from the default themes, possibly with Plasma 6.
        But yeah, maybe you also just had additional theme packages installed. The Arch Wiki lists some of those, too.