I hope this is the right subforum.

I was finalizing the Plasma theme I've been working on for the last six months a few minutes ago. I had noticed a couple of days ago that one part didn't work (specifically, the cashew's popup). As I didn't know which file was problematic, I thought I could find out by using a customized theme (as explained here: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Tweakin ... 9.22_Theme), switching parts of the theme for another one until I would have found the culprit.

Instead, it immediately deleted most of the files in the theme, even those I didn't ask to be customized. The only change I made was Panel Background (see link), but it deleted everything in the Icons and Dialogs folders as well as every file in Widgets related to panels. It also overwrote the metadata.desktop file.

I searched for a cached copy but found nothing of value. I had erased my only potential backup about 10 minutes before the original was destroyed.

I'm quite upset right now and I know my own stupidity is to blame. But is this the expected behavior? Shouldn't the Customized Theme feature create a new folder where it stores copies of (or links to) the original files it splices? What's the point if it permanently erases original files so that I can't even revert changes later on?

I'm running Plasma Desktop 4.14.2 on openSUSE 13.1, just in case.