Hello,
since I was a KDE user before I discovered i3 and tiling window mangers, I
still use a number of KDE application. Since recently, dolphin lost the UI
settings, everytime it was restarted, this was fixed by these settings (in
~/.xprofile
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="kde"
export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/
export KDE_FULL_SESSION=1
export KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5
A positive effect was also better file-open/save dialoges and I feel an
improved font rendering.
A negative effect was, that some (KDE) application do not appear in the system
tray anymore (like kmail, kgpg, ...)
Some nice person on the KDE mailing list replied:
Some system tray icons do not owrk anymore. Most notably kmail and
Nextcould. Other \ apps, like Dropbox, udiskie, Redshift-GTK are working.
So I guess there is some KDE \ way of using the systray, kmail and
nextcloud try to use that and it does not work \ with the standard way i3
is using.
Any idea?
Yeah, this can be a side-effect: KDE desktops use a slightly different
method for the \ systray, one that uses dbusmenu-qt. If memory serves me
well this is done by the \ plasma-integration plugin.
2 solutions:
- find a plugin/extension for your desktop that supports this method; I know
one \>
exists for the XFCE-panel for instance
- uninstall or otherwise disable the plasma-integration plugin \
($prefix/share/qt5/plugins/platformthemes/KDEPlasmaPlatformTheme.so).