Bug 467329

Summary:	OSTree support: add sddm2rpm as available tool?
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-knewstuff	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, alexander.lohnau, kdelibs-bugs-null, leinir, nate, nicolas.fella, tim
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Henning 2023-03-14 13:44:52 UTC

SUMMARY
Currently KDE theme kits fail to install because SDDM themes cannot be installed on OSTree systems (Fedora Kinoite, OpenSuse microOS).

https://github.com/Lunarequest/sddm2rpm
https://crates.io/sddm2rpm

A way around this is sddm2rpm, a rust tool to convert sddm archives (now all types supported) to rpms one can layer with rpm-ostree.

PROPOSED SOLUTION
Add sddm2rpm to Dolphin, allowing to deal with sddm themes seperately, converting them to rpms and use the rpm-ostree backend to layer them.

Or fix SDDM to use /etc of course, to avoid this issue.

Currently KDE themes are "broken" because of this, at least the ease of using themepacks.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

Comment 1 Henning 2023-03-14 13:47:28 UTC

Of course you would have to ask the developer if the is okay with that. The tool currently is best in CLI, works great there

Comment 2 Henning 2024-01-29 03:49:38 UTC

I think solving this through a writable directory in sddm is a better approach