A theme is software and software has bugs. While this one had a pretty dramatic effect, you take basically the same risk with every program you run. This, along with hardware and user errors are why backups are so important; they change a disaster to an inconvenience.
/ Preach mode off
That seems to have worked. Thanks.
Never pay for software for your job unless you're self employed. That's the employers responsibility.
Also went back to x11 because of vscode flickering and redrawing badly. I'm not sure whether it's an nvidia problem, a vscode problem, or a kwin-wayland problem though.
So I've updated my desktop and Plasma, Nvidia, and Wayland is actually usable 🫨 but I had to reapply a few settings.
In the month or so it's been on my laptop, it's been stable as in reliable but it's definitely not stable in the more traditional sense - unchanging.
Konsole. It meets all my needs.
The default Plasma Panel does most of what Latte Dock did.
Yeah, it won't have been ported to Qt 6 and if IIRC widgets and plasmoids work differently now.
Breeze, for example, contains a lot of code. For instance