Hi,
Am 25.06.2018 um 22:05 schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > On Monday June 25 2018 20:57:18 Florian Lindner wrote: > >> It seems that setting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME causes the problem, inside Plasma >> as well as inside i3. However, not setting causes all KDE (5?) application >> not showing any icons when used inside i3, so it's not an option either. > > Yes, that would figure, although there's a trick to avoid that too. > >> It was very hard for me to find information about using KDE application >> outside of Plasma. > > That figures, the plasma team guards their work a bit jealously (or at least > that's the impression one can get). > >> How to use the plasma-integration platform theme plugin if not using Plasma5 >> desktop? > > Easy: set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde; you should already have the plugin itself > since you have the Plasma5 desktop stuff installed . It can help if you also > set KDE_FULL_SESSION=1 and KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 . > If you do that, KF5 applications should behave as if they're running under a > Plasma5 desktop. There should be no or almost no drawbacks, because that > desktop environment isn't required to run those applications. This is exactly > what I do on a Kubuntu 14.04 machine that still has a good old KDE/Plasma4 > desktop, and I do something similar on my Mac where it is evidently not > possible to run a full Plasma desktop environment. >>From time to time you may get messages about services that aren't running or >>found (kactivities, for instance). For the most part those will probably not >>interest you, if not you can install/run them manually. The most important >>things (kdeinit5, kded5 and kwalletd5) should get started automatically. Only setting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde makes dolphin crash at the first startup (second try always works) and sends kmail into in infinite loop at start, I already tried that some time ago. Setting also KDE_FULL_SESSION=1 and KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 makes it all work like a charm! Setttings are saved, file open dialoges are now really KDE and not some minmimalistic version and a number of other idiosyncrasies... Thanks a lot! Is there some KDE wiki site that can be used to document that? Is https://userbase.kde.org the right place? Best, Florian
