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  • FIX for dark themes with blaring white applications.

jrsilvey I don't know exactly what has happened recently

you saw the meme in the other thread. that's what happened🙂.

Great resolution--I've never tried flatpak theming. always scared me for some reason (conflicts etc). but once you make a dark move in dconf, you can still undo it in gnome-control or budgie-control, right?

      brent I've never tried flatpak theming ...

      I didn't know that Flatpak theming even existed. I've been hoping for a modular Linux OS for a long time. By modular, I mean that of the four layers (kernel, OS, DE, app), the OS layer would be minimal and the DE layer and app layer would consist of independent plug-ins along the lines of Flatpaks, each independent, self-contained and self-sufficient. I don't expect to see that happen, but it seems to me that a modular architecture would solve a lot of problems.

          tomscharbach I meant that loosely with "flatpak theming" resembling a coaching or coordinating role regarding theming, not really actual theming. at least that was my takeaway with the stickied discussion workaround to this, as well as this. I was unclear for sure

          tomscharbach I mean that of the four layers (kernel, OS, DE, app), the OS layer would be minimal and the DE layer and app layer would consist of independent plug-ins along the lines of Flatpaks, each independent, self-contained and self-sufficient

          If there was an emoji of a blown mind then put it here🙂. Far out, Tom.

              jrsilvey
              Hi,
              thank you very much for giving us this solution!
              It worked perfectly even though I don't like Dolphin's design as much but at least I can use my favourite theme Plata-Compact again!
              Hooray!!

                As much as I like Dolphin and its capabilities to stick to the OS's theming there is still one problem I need help with:

                In Dolphin most allocations of file formats and their respectable apps aren't there (as they are in Nautilus). They are set within Solus (Budgie in my case) but not within the file manager.
                When right-clicking a file to pick the desired app I want to open the file with I have to enter the linux-typical path to the place on my computer where all the applications are stored.
                Could you help me with how that's done within Dolphin?
                Something like the Nautilus-typical right-click and a graphical list of selectable apps pops up doesn't exist in Dolphin.

                  Axios
                  Yes, I'm using the Flatpak version of Dolphin as described by @jrsilvey in this thread. It probably means that it doesn't know any of the allocations because I didn't install anything else but the bare file manager (not that I know of anyway).
                  Feels like a uncomplete installation...

                      SOLUSfiddler I think your prob right something with flatpak.
                      I dunno if you installed flatseal and look at the settings for dolphin you could change access
                      (Dunno just throwing that out there)

                        When I click on a file's properties Dolphin shows a wrong app to open it with.
                        I can then click on "Change..." (or whatever it is in English, I'm using the German UI) and I get:
                        "Could not find the "keditfiletype5" executable in PATH."

                        Does that get us anywhere towards a solution?

                        SOLUSfiddler Everyday is like Halloween with Dolphin's Baloo indexer on budgie. It's not too late to remove it.
                        /😉