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I have this problem where the contrast large cursor keeps imposing itself on me. It's unremovable in the settings gui, which is silly. I don't want it, I will never want it. I've previously removed it the hard way but after a Kubuntu distro upgrade, there it is again.

Please make it so the cursor themes are removable and stay removed.

Clancularius wrote:I have this problem where the contrast large cursor keeps imposing itself on me. It's unremovable in the settings gui, which is silly. I don't want it, I will never want it. I've previously removed it the hard way but after a Kubuntu distro upgrade, there it is again.

Please make it so the cursor themes are removable and stay removed.

(K)ubuntu is not KDE

It seems that you are using distribution, Ubuntu, metapackages: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages .

Looking what the Ubuntu metapackages kubuntu-desktop: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ection=all

and the plasma-desktop : https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ection=all are installing.

With the plasma-desktop 17.10:



With the kubuntu-desktop 17.10:




If you want changes to the distribution packaging

Please, inform the distribution packagers if you want changes what and how the distributions are wrapping to the their packages.

Kubuntu: https://kubuntu.org -> Contribute: https://kubuntu.org/contribute-to-kubuntu/

I'm not asking for a particular default theme to be removed on release. I'm asking for the ability to remove default themes myself from the GUI. This is not distribution specific.

Clancularius wrote:I'm not asking for a particular default theme to be removed on release. I'm asking for the ability to remove default themes myself from the GUI. This is not distribution specific.

You already have the option to use the GUI. You need the admin/root rights to remove system cursor theme:

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kdesudo kcmshell5 cursortheme

Example with the Kubuntu & VirtualBox:


But note that

Upgrade of the package that drew the 'Contrast Large' theme in will reinstall it.

Seems to be the package: kubuntu-settings-desktop - https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/all/ ... p/filelist

Needing admin rights to remove a cursor theme is silly and that method is not remotely user friendly. I would prefer the ability to remove a cursor theme in the gui without those and for updates to respect my settings like they do other aspects of customisation.

Please stop referring me to Kubuntu. My particular problem is one I have with a kubuntu customisation but this is a feature request not a tech support request. I can fix my problem but I want a way to fix it easier and one where it cannot re-occur and it would benefit others that have their own individual problems with specific cursor themes. Kubuntu are not going to stop providing that theme just because one person has a problem with it.

It's not just a "silly" matter that system-installed themes can only be removed with heightened permissions. Do also consider that KDE and linux distros are also used in more secure multi-user environments. Granting users the ability to remove system themes would result in breaking or at the very least making unwanted changes to other users' settings as they would also no longer be able to use that theme. (and this is besides the fact that the files themselves are installed with permissions which require admin rights to be able to modify or remove which thus requires the application modifying/removing them to be granted those rights)

If you want to grant yourself permissions to perform such actions without requiring you to enter the admin credentials, there are ways you can do that depending on your distro (hence referring you to kubuntu to resolve your trouble).

(though I suppose an alternative idea would be to move those themes to some place like /etc/skel or something, such that when a new user logs in they are copied over to the user's config where they may be free to remove them. I don't know what technical troubles may result from trying to do that, but I'd assume that there should always be at least one fallback theme installed in the system themes just in case the user decides they want to remove all of them)