KDE Theme Installer — install a theme and all its companions with one URL

General
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If you’ve ever tried installing a KDE theme from the store, you know the drill: download the global theme, then scroll through the description hunting for links to the matching icon pack, color scheme, Aurorae window decoration, Konsole color scheme, Kvantum theme, cursors… each one a separate download, each one with its own archive to extract and drop in the right folder.

I got tired of it, so I built a tool to do it automatically.

KDE Theme Installer takes a KDE Store / Pling / opendesktop.org URL, discovers every companion piece referenced in the theme’s description, and installs everything to the correct location — no manual archive extraction, no hunting for the right ~/.local/share/ subfolder.

What it does

  • Fetches the theme and all linked companions via the OCS API (same one Plasma uses internally)
  • Installs to the correct XDG path per content type — Global Themes, Plasma styles, icon themes, color schemes, Aurorae decorations, Konsole color schemes, wallpapers, Kvantum themes, cursor themes
  • Preview popup so you can see what each item looks like before installing
  • Correctly handles Plasma 5 content (flags it as incompatible rather than silently installing broken files)
  • Verifies MD5 checksums, handles rate limiting, safe archive extraction

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/robinsiebler/kde-theme-installer --user
sudo dnf install python3-tkinter  # or python3-tk on Debian/Ubuntu
kde-theme-installer

GitHub: GitHub - robinsiebler/kde-theme-installer: A GUI program to download and install KDE Plasma themes (all components) automatically · GitHub

Tested on Nobara KDE (Plasma 6, Wayland). Feedback and bug reports welcome — there are still some content types (fonts, GTK themes) that aren’t fully handled yet, and I’d love to know what breaks on other distros.

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wow, thanks for contributing.

your timing tho… have you read bout Union and the efforts already underway to streamline this process?

great minds think alike.

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I have no clue what Union is. I’ve used Linux for 2 weeks, one of which was getting it installed, configured and fixing all the minor issues I had.

I installed 1 theme and threw up my hands! I’m used to WindowBlinds which made installing Windows themes a matter of a few button clicks.

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