I’m attempting to use a custom color scheme that I’ve made, it’s been set in Colours & Themes > Colours and some apps like system settings appear to follow it, however a significant majority don’t like KCalc & Dolphin. Other color schemes appear to work fine. This can be fixed on some apps by going to Settings > Window Color Scheme and manually setting the theme there.
I’m on an Arch Linux machine running KDE Plasma 6.5.4.
In Kcalc: Settings>Configure Kcalc>Colors>Follow system color scheme
In Dolphin: Settings>Window Color Scheme>whatever you want
In Kcalc this has been enabled yet it still doesn’t follow the system color scheme, rather following Breeze Dark
Could you possibly send me your color scheme file? I will take a look at it and see if I notice any problems.
Can’t send the file directly here so here’s the contents dumped to Pastebin
Here is your color scheme on my system …
It works perfectly. (The red is my accent color which I didn’t change). Obviously your problem lies elsewhere. What Application Style, Plasma Style and Windows Decoration are you using?
qt6ct is being used for the application style, React Plus/Reactionary is being used for the plasma style & window decorations. Changing either of these doesn’t seem to solve the issue however.
I am not able to reproduce your problem. What else have you added to this system?
The only other thing that could be relating to this is kvantum, though I don’t believe that touches the KDE color scheme. I’ll correct on what i said previously though: when the window color theme is set to default, if the color scheme is a dark one then it’ll use the breeze dark color scheme, and vice versa for a light theme. Just the actual colors don’t get applied unless manually selected
Plasma is also installed via the plasma-meta package
I have never trusted Kvantum so I won’t install it for testing purposes. There are native ways to achieve transparency.
I’ve uninstalled kvantum and reinstalled plasma-meta to be safe then rebooted, the behavior seems to be inconsistent however across the KDE apps.
Apps like Partition Manager, Kongress and KTorrent respect my color scheme (& other schemes aswell) yet others like KOrganizer, Akregator and Dolphin don’t.
I would create a new user. Then log out of your account and into the account of the new user. Recreate your color scheme with no extras and see what happens.
On a fresh account this seemed to have solved the problem, I’m assuming this might be a config-related issue then?
Exactly. “Not might” is definitely.
You should not be using qt6ct on Plasma, it conflicts with plasma-integration. See Distributions/Packaging Recommendations - KDE Community Wiki
