Why are all pre-installed application styles and window decorations not uninstallable?

[rokejulianlockhart]

To summarise (for the “Solution” plugin):

@rokejulianlockhart

I’ve since ascertained that, at least the Plastik WDs, can be removed! The aurorae package, which appears to be merely installed by default on cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42, [1] provides them.

1. In kcm_style:

   1. QtGui can be compiled with QStyles / QQuickStyles, which cannot be removed without recompilation.

   2. However, the package manager can also include these as binaries. These can be removed, insofar as they’re not hard dependencies.

2. In kcm_kwindecoration, the package manager can install entries, as can KGetNewStuff. However, KGetNewStuff doesn’t install anything by default.

@rokejulianlockhart

In this case, I suppose that an FR for having kcm_kwindecoration able to invoke plasma-discover --backends packagekit’s uninstallation functionality (however that’s possible without support for packages without AppStream metadata) [2] would be appropriate.

A GUI to invoke Discover with these packages prefilled doesn’t exist.