Themes Fedora and Breeze Are Identical

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Hey together,

before writing a bug report, I wanted to ask here about it:

I just updated to plasmashell 6.6.0 and it advertises for the new theme Fedora.
Afaics the two themes Breeze and Fedora are completely identical on my system.

Is this supposed to be right now?

Thanks a lot!

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They should be pretty much the same apart from the wallpaper. Fedora ships an only-very-lightly “branded” version of Breeze as its default.

You could run this to see the differences between them:

diff -bur /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.fedoraproject.fedora.desktop/contents/defaults /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/defaults

The only differences really are in the images, and in the theme and author names.

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Indeed:

--- /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.fedoraproject.fedora.desktop/contents/defaults  2026-02-12 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/defaults    2026-02-12 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
Theme=breeze

[plasmarc][Theme]
-name=breeze-dark
+name=default

[Wallpaper]
-Image=Fedora
+Image=Next

[kcminputrc][Mouse]
cursorTheme=breeze_cursors

Maybe I’m mistaken. I thought this theme was introduced with 6.6, so I was confused (still am actually …).

If both are actually identical, why not kick one out? I’m probably not the only one confused by this.

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It’s definitely not new with 6.6 :slightly_smiling_face:

So that Fedora can at least provide its own wallpaper as branding.

There’s also Fedora’s own icon which is used by default for the app launcher. That gets set up by the script /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.fedoraproject.fedora.desktop/contents/plasmoidsetupscripts/org.kde.plasma.kicker.js.

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