Alternatives to org.kde.plasma.desktop

[Marco Martin]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Franklin Weng
<franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote:
> plasmoids and activities, and 2) default panel layout.  Now I know that
> ~/.config/plasmarc defines themes in /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme and I
> can also define look-n-feel package to be used in the [KDE] section in
> ~/.config/kdeglobals.  However I still couldn't find where to define which

that's in ~/.config/kdeglobals as well.
[KDE]
LookAndFeelPackage=your.package.name

> plasmashell to use.  I saw a ~/.config/plasmashellrc file in my home folder,
> but again, I couldn't find *any* document describing the sections and
> properties in plasmashellrc.  Neither in userbase or techbase wiki, even nor

you shouldn't have to touch the plasmashellrc file, (and if so, it's
bound to break)

> in the source code (I searched "plasmashellrc" in lxr.kde.org but no any
> result.)
>
> The layout-templates is also still in the same condition.  I couldn't find
> an alternative way instead of directly change the layout.js in it.

yes, your look and feel package would have your edited layout.js file.
also check the application "lookandfeelexplorer" from the plasma-sdk repo.
you can create a rough package from whatever is your current
customized setup, then you continue editing the generated package from
there

> I wonder if it should work like this:  /etc/kde5rc can define profile folder
> (which would be prior to /usr/share/plasma) and my customization should be
> set over there.  It's just a guess, anyway I need help with this.

everything should be installed as usual, no /usr/share/plasma
override, the only file needing override is kdeglobals

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Marco Martin