If it weren’t for someone posting about this I would’ve never known. In all those years I never even installed a single global theme. Not once. Seems to me a lot of people aren’t aware you can install everything separately. In my case, sure, the same STORE error. But my world isn’t falling apart.
Many are aware each component can be installed separately but not all. I have been a KDE user for a very long time. Also prefer Debian over the multitude of disto’s out there. This a rare case in which a problem is identified but the status is not adequately addressed or fixed. The beauty of Debian is the longevity, stability and incremental patches to resolve identified issues., that was until lately.
Has anyone taken rather a trivial step of running systemsettings from the terminal and seeing whether any error messages show up ?
On Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS | KWin version: 5.27.11 | Qt compile version: 5.15.13 the following is output:
kf.newstuff.core: Could not find category "121"
Each category inside store.kde.org has a corresponding category id.
In this case 121 maps to Global Themes (Plasma 5) - KDE Store which is Global Themes (Plasma 5)
The framework knewstuff makes use of configuration files inside /usr/share/knsrcfiles
Backup the following file and then edit /usr/share/knsrcfiles/lookandfeel.knsrc
Update
Categories=121
With
Categories=Global Themes (Plasma 5)
Then try to get new themes again.
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Works here. Some Debian.
can confirm.
that file in kubuntu 24.10 uses the text declaration rather than the number declaration and global themes work fine here.
simple fix for a update to correct
this solution should be added to the bug report (is there a bug report?)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495903
Updated to include fix in last comment.
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what about for plasma 6? I’m having the same problem. I’m still kinda green when it comes to linux but i can follow instructions. Thanks for your time and assistance.
Hi! Are you getting the same message that was screenshotted in the first post up top here? Which distribution and Plasma version do you have running?