SUMMARY When upgrading from 5.73 to 5.75, the user's color scheme is completely lost. For users that have spent non-trivial time customizing their schema, this is NOT ACCEPTABLE, never mind that 5.75 inexplicably dropped the "use system colors" option. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Update from 5.73 to 5.75 OBSERVED RESULT Everything using katepart is suddenly using totally different colors with no way to recover the user's previous configuration. EXPECTED RESULT User's colors are preserved. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.75 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75 Qt Version: 5.15.1
There is work done on having some conversion scripts. At the moment the work on the .kateschema files, not on the kateschemarc. See https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/tree/master/utils/schema-converter
We have converters in the repo. That there will be any integrated conversion tool is unlikely, as nobody stepped up to implement it. Given this change is now more than a year in the past, I assume the world can live with what we have. I keep this open as a wish, I doubt somebody will work on this.
Nobody stepped up, we still only have the manual converter. If somebody still wants to have that, please provide a patch. https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-07-18-contributing-via-gitlab-merge-requests/