Hello,
I am trying to make Kmail usable with dark themes by circumventing Bug 346135. Indeed Kmail message view is broken with Dark themes when displaying HTML messages, and developers don't seem to care about it.

What I have in mind is to start kontact with a different KDEHOME prefix, and set it to use a light theme but it doesn't seem to work.

Here is what I have been trying:

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export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde-light
systemsettings5


I was planing on setting the same environment variable before starting kontact once configuration was done.

But what happens is that systemsettings5 open using my configured dark theme instead of the default theme as I was expecting. Also when modifying the theme from there, my whole desktop theme gets modified. Strangely the folder .kde-light is indeed created, so that leads me to believe that the enviroment variable is working to an extent. Now maybe kde does not store "look and feel" settings inside $KDEHOME; if so, where does it? Is there a different enviroment variable that I should set?

thanks in advance

Does no one knows how to help? Is it possible at all? I know that with kde4 it was documented that it was possible to change KDEHOME. Does the new version make that impossible? Or maybe the look and feel folder is not located in KDE home?

almaic wrote:Does no one knows how to help? Is it possible at all? I know that with kde4 it was documented that it was possible to change KDEHOME. Does the new version make that impossible? Or maybe the look and feel folder is not located in KDE home?

New version ? Do you mean Plasma 5 / KDE Frameworks 5 ?




Maybe this will help a bit:

KDE4

KDE System Administration/Environment Variables: https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Adm ... _Variables
--> https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Adm ... es#KDEHOME

KDEHOME

If not set, KDE uses ~/.kde as directory where your personal data is stored.

KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5)

XDG Base Directory Specification: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... atest.html

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

Yes I was talking about plasma 5;

Thank you very much for your help, very appreciated.