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Tbh as long as COSMIC lacks 1:1 theming support for KDE apps, it is not usable.
I love KDE Apps. There are also some GTK Apps I use, but the big ones (Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, Ark, Spectacle Editor) are all KDE.
All those apps are tied to Plasma, pull Plasma as a dependency, and as such, are not what you'd want to use unless you want to keep 2 DEs around. Okular is an exception, but I know for a fact that Dolphin pulls all of Plasma with it. For an Ark alternative, just use xarchiver (contrary to the name, works perfectly on Wayland). Gwenview is just an image viewer. Use ristretto or something else. COSMIC comes with its own screenshot utility as Spectacle replacement (and COSMIC Screenshot is quite good in my experience). And just replace Dolphin with COSMIC files (for a simpler experience) or Thunar (for something more powerful) and you're good to go.
Edit: But I agree QT theming should be added. IIRC, they've talked to the Plasma team, but it was just too time consuming so they've put it of for now, but will have this done eventually. It's a promised feature, it just probably won't happen soon.
Already did that. Those apps are themed horribly and are thus unusable. Afaik there is also no scaling setting for 3rd party toolkits in the COSMIC settings.
Ark can do more, like compress in detail, from the filemanager.
Gwenview is an image editor with many basic features you want.
Spectacle has another image editing feature, for some reason KDE has 4 implementations of that, Spectacle has the only good one. This can be used standalone with the Dolphin extension "annotate it".
Dolphin is waaay better than COSMIC files, absolutely no comparison. If it is just a customizable GUI, custom icons for everything, extensions.
I dont ger Thunar. pcmanfm-qt is the best alternative to Dolphin I know. At least the theming works on KDE, may be different on other desktops
Dude it’s an alpha. Honestly sounds like you should just stick to KDE anyway.
I explained KDE Apps.
COSMIC is fine and a really great project. But they are simply lacking like 10 years of development behind KDE.
Not gonna say that once ready it could simply be better, faster, more streamlined, no cruft. But yeah, not in the next few years.
It's possible theme QT and KDE applications on Cosmic. It's just not supported directly by Cosmic. See this post here.
Interesting, thanks!
I know Fedora has some meta-theme package, they should add that to Workstation too.
It includes the breeze themes.
Then a flatpak env var or
/etc/environmentcould work