Expand "icons" left to folders not showing on Dolphin (Detailed View)

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Hello people, I am having some issues with theming (fixed few of them but this one bugs me a lot):

The “expand” + signs on the left at each folder in Detail View doesn’t show up. I can still click “there” and make it expand but I don’t know what is the reason, tried other themes and colors but it doesn’t seem to be the issue as far as I checked:

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KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version 6.12.1-Arcg1-1(64-bit)
Graphic Platfrom: Wayland

Dolphin
Version 24.08.3

Any guidance or tip will be helpfull, also nope, F5/refresh doesn’t fix it.

EDIT: Ok after trying some stuff I just added as an exception Dolphin in QT6, I am running Plasma over Archcraft and it seems to need QT5CT-Style as well as QT6CT-Style for its default DE, so when entering Plasma it mess things around, I can change the config on both since there are QT5 and QT6 Configuration Tools but I have no clue on how to force to only use ONE of them (Mainly QT5 I think?) since both active can cause issues on Plasma Theming as I got from my previous issue here:

discuss kde org/t/colors-not-applying-to-even-system-config-window/26231

As far as I understood I can change some config file to force only one of the QT to be used but I don’t know which file and how to do it.
I tried uninstalling as well but since the other DE depends on those elements it won’t let me, or better said it will warn me to not screw it all so I halted and I am asking for help please…

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Hi - am I understanding correctly that you’re trying to run two different desktop environments under the same user profile, one of which has a dependency on qt5ct and qt6ct?

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I honestly only use Plasma but didn’t want to uninstall the default one “just in case”, and as far as it comes with QT6CT with it as dependency.

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Ah - unfortunately, those are likely fundamentally incompatible then, as qt6ct breaks theming in Plasma: Distributions/Packaging Recommendations - KDE Community Wiki

It looks like Arch does not follow that packaging recommendation to have qt6ct conflict with plasma-integration: Arch Linux - qt6ct 0.9-12 (x86_64)

In general, the safest way to try out a different environment, with the least risk to your running setup, would be using a virtual machine (whenever possible) since then you’re (practically) guaranteed to not be touching anything in your main day-to-day filesystem :slight_smile:

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