I am using KDENeon, and after a recent update, I noticed the colors on the Start button screen and notifications looked wrong (the gray-ish color).
I tracked it down to the Plasma/Desktop Style of Breeze, and Breeze Dark, as you can see from the screenshot attached.
I am not sure how to fix this, and it says I can’t edit what I think is the broken color, so any help would be appreciated.
Also this might affect other people, so a proper fix for it would be nice.
Anyway to check without having to create a new user? This is on my main PC and I don’t want to do something I can’t cleanup easily.
It is easy. Create a new temporary user. Log out from your current session. Log into new user’s session. Check style colors. Log out. Log in to your main user session. Delete temporary user with it’s home directory.
Create a new user, switch to that… then delete that new user.
You can do it in settings (search ‘user’).
Or:
if id "test" &>/dev/null; then sudo userdel -r test; else sudo useradd -m test && echo 'test:test' | sudo chpasswd; fi
This will 1. Check for user ‘test’. If it’s there, it gets wiped. Otherwise, it is created.
Copy to your clipboard, then paste in terminal to create test - switch and test.
After going back to your account, just open terminal and run it again.
You can ‘switch user’ if you can’t be bothered with all the log out/log in…
I made this command an abbreviation… if you use zsh, add it as an alias:
alias testuser="if id "test" &>/dev/null; then sudo userdel -r test; else sudo useradd -m test && echo 'test:test' | sudo chpasswd; fi"
Then in the terminal reload zsh (type zsh) and type ‘testuser’
This points to an issue with your HOME folder, your USER data… so I’m happy to see you narrowed it down already to the ~/.local/share folder (your private theme options/edits) first.
Just remember, after moving/renaming a folder to remove it from the system ( ~/.local/share/plasma) you can recreate an empty replacement and move it’s contents back bit by bit, but it’s best to simply log out and in again.
mv ~/.local/share/plasma ~/.local/share/plasma-BORKED
CtrlAltL is 'log out without confirmation - speeds things up a tad.
Then go back to Dolphin and drag a folder back (copy, not move) each time you log in, that will help you be sure you isolate the exact folder/file in the end (half-split if you have no clues).
I think kwin-style-breeze5 is a relic from Plasma 5, so we’re way past that now - no need to install it.
Good luck
Sorry for the wait, I was able to work on this a bit on the new user account I made, and chased it down to at least two folders: translucent, and dialogs. When I rename those two the issue is fixed.
Both of these folders are 5 years old, and one of them has not been changed (or its contents) in any way for 5 years also. I think the 1 svg file in the dialogs folder got technically edited when it opened with inkscape from the System Settings.
The other folders and their contents are also all unchanged from 5 years ago, except the metadata.desktop which I’m not sure what changed it, but just like the svg file I think it was edited by some kind of automated process that I don’t control.
Point is this is the Default theme. That has been there basically untouched for 5 years, with no issues. To me this really does look like an issue that was caused because of a recent update.
Also forgot to mention, the open theme folder button in the Settings, it opening the system theme, even though it is actually using the theme from the home directory, seems very unintentional.
Plus the text blurb for the asset (dialogs/background), it saying it is readonly, and system wide, seems unintentional as well.
