It’s worth remembering that KDE Plasma is known for its customizability. A typical user can therefore install KDE Plasma to make it resemble another operating system. They will likely use the integrated KDE interface for the Pling store because they’ve never heard of the KDE Store. If the algorithm malfunctions at that point, the user will conclude that KDE is unstable.
In case you weren’t aware, bugs in the integrated KDE interface for the Pling store are almost exclusively related to the API provided by Pling.
My main problem with the KDE store is that I can’t FIND anything. There’s all this lovely stuff, but the search and categories as they exist won’t let me find anything I don’t already know by name (and sometimes not then). When the Settings app comes up with something, it installs fine and no problem. When I hear of something elsewhere and want to see it… how the heck do I get to it??
i haven’t been using linux all that long , only about a year and a half or so .. and idk while its far from perfect i would say it fuctions well enough to at least get a person started?
i mean search is broken and doesn’t make sense half the time with sorting but its still workable. if you know the exact title you Caqn just download things even if its a hassle to have to go into a browser to find more options cause only X amount shows up in the ‘get new’ section of the settings vs having a see more option or continuing to scroll.
i wouldn’t agree that you can’t build a nice concocted theme from what you grab off of there cause frankly i’ve been pretty happy with mine after mix and matching.
That said the fact that gobal themes error out pretty often when you try to install them is super annoying and as a new user when i first made the jump here it wasn’t apparent that i’d need other things vs what was offered outside of the ‘get new’ to make things work. i was often confused why my stuff didn’t look like the pictures layout aside.
on top of that every now n then something happens and things get updated to where for whatever reason the settings just won’t open cause of my ‘look and feel’ at least that was the assumption the first time i stumbled on the issue ( it was a learning day!). i’m still not sure what causes it tho honestly cause twice in the past week its happened and if i reapply my usual via konsave log out and back in it has no issue … so i’m not sure how its really all related vs originally i thought it was just the plasma style having been updated when it first happened.
all this is to say while things could definitely improve i think overall it Does get the job done just enough at least. …. but also yeah if only we could filter out the anime cursors ,.. nothing against those who want them but its so hard to weed thru them when your hunting for something nice
Well that’s good, but there’s also quite a bit of difference between ‘downloading themes’ and ‘getting a new Global Theme’ - and I think it’s the Global Themes and Plasma schemes which are the biggest bugbear on Pling.
It pretty much has been the Global Themes that have been the issue, imo.
Not that the GHNS ( I think I have aged myself) has always been smooth, but it seems to me that things took a big nosedive when these were implemented. They are mostly just meta-packages that define a set of individual theme components to be installed, and the Store imo doesn’t seem to be able to handle the number of requests. This is in addition to themes that want non-existent parts or just poor quality uploads. In my anecdotal experience, at least.
No, that sounds about right - Global Themes kinda sucks - I use konsave now to save a unified theme, and I much prefer the KISS strategy - get your components separately and put together your own ideas.
What are the required skill sets and their respective proficiency levels to be able to contribute? I started to learn C and dipped my toes into C++ and Qt, but that surely isn’t enough to, e.g., try to fix the current Klipper issue with directly pasting text by just pressing Enter, right?
C++ and QML are definitely good places to start. The JavaScript dialect used for QML is also worth looking into. But the main thing is to be curious, self-motivating and enjoying a challenge I think.
Here you can find pointers on how to start contributing:
