[SOLVED] KDE Plasma: Dolphin not using system-wide accent colours

13 March 2023, 20:36:34

Having had to reinstall my OS after messing up the root partition it was installed on, I've been re-configuring my KDE Plasma installation to follow the theme I used prior. As a disclaimer, I've gone out of my way to change some of the default configuration Artix uses for its Artix-dark theme, such as switching to qt5ct over gtk for the global style.

Currently, I cannot seem to figure out why Dolphin refuses to use the accent colour I've configured for Plasma as the colour for folder icons. Below I have the accent colour set to be the same from the Artix-dark colour scheme, whereas folders within Dolphin refuse to change colour from blue.

How could I figure out what's causing Dolphin to force its accent colour?

Re: KDE Plasma: Dolphin not using system-wide accent colours

Reply #1 – 13 March 2023, 23:17:08

It's deprecated upstream, see the packages to avoid section. You may gain some more insight reading our wiki article. Also a note to myself to remove it from our ISO profiles.

Re: KDE Plasma: Dolphin not using system-wide accent colours

Reply #2 – 13 March 2023, 23:50:28

Wow, I see. Removing qt5ct altogether fixed this immediately. Thanks.