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A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click (www.mikrobitti.fi)

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Global Themes" in Plasma do more than just styling

To developers it's not a surprise that third party plugins can do this sort of thing. It's as intended. A global theme can ship custom lockscreens, custom applets, custom settings and all of these can run arbitrary bundled code. You can't constrain this without limiting functionality.

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/

Naturally this is not what an end user expects when browsing for themes, and the warnings don't make up for the risks.

I hope devs can find a better way to ship this rich functionality, or at least introduce an automated "canary-release" process to the KDE Store that takes down themes that misbehave.