(This is a half-rant half actual question)

I wanted a nice qt theme to use on Scribus since Arc Dark doesn't work on there. When I tried to install it, pacman said this will install 50 packages. 300 Mb in total.

Why does a theme need packages such as Kauth and Kwallet?

  • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I’d check that you’re actually installing the most appropriate package. For instance on Ubuntu there’s kid3 which is a MP3 tag application that will pull in the entire k desktop environment. Or you can install kid3-qt which packages its own version of those dependencies and doesn’t pull an entire desktop environment in if you’re using a non-kde environment.

    • __jov@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

      Ubuntu is really bad with this. Installing npm pulls adwaita icon theme, xorg and half the gnome desktop for some reason.

    • D.J@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      kid3 which is a MP3 tag application that will pull in the entire k desktop environment.

      Mental illness. And it seems breeze is the only package which offers the QT theme.