And also… Completely irrelevant to the discussion. What’s the connection?

That’s weird.
To share a contrasting experience, I run KDE on Wayland on a laptop with two physical monitors with different rotations and three virtual monitors with different resolutions and it all Just Works.

It got some good conversations going though.

If your only two options are hostile or silent, let’s go with silent.

Terrible timing. Just like the WonderSwan.

I miss Zip Disks. Those things were so cool and so outclassed by perpendicular progress.

It was probably from before Debian included the non-free firmware in the installation media, so you had to scramble to put those on a floppy disk or something, all while your system was out of commission.

You can jump to 25.10 for the short-term release, and there’s a preview available for 26.04 (officially releases in April), both of which have Wayland by default in Plasma and I believe Gnome.
Though I would strongly recommend you try Debian, version 13 (Trixie) includes Plasma 6 and of course Wayland by default.
It’s a bright future.

They did. It’s Wayland. Everything should work in Wayland now. It’s the default for everything, even xfce (4.20+), and x compatibility is handled by xwayland.

I was going to reply with this:

Gnome

Ahh.

Now I kinda want to piss them off

The… post that we’re all in right now.

They don’t all stand for “off”.

Doom door/elevator woosh

Bobcat growl

Sure, blame it on your ISP!

Oh nice, I think I’ve used that theme.
I was imagining something a little different.
I had in mind something like xfce’s XML files where settings can be locked at the system level, so when they’re generated at the user level, those individual settings refuse to be masked.
I think for Plasma I’d need a script that runs after the theme has been changed that flips the “group-by” setting back to “never”.

Or how the Wii is two GameCubes duct-taped together

I just need to run a pacman -Ql on the package. I’m guessing it takes the normal sequence of ~ dotfiles if present, else etc, else var lib.
I looked it up, there’s some promising stuff in qmls in /usr/share/plasma, desktop configuration in plasmoids, but that includes a panel configuration qml higher up.
Even if I do tinker with that, an update would wipe it out. I wasn’t able to find any equivalent in etc, maybe as with most things on Arch it’s “some assembly required”.

Oh shoot, while we’re at it, is there a way to change default settings for things? I’m not even sure where to start looking, documentation-wise.
I want my taskbar to never group by names, but I regularly need to set that again each time I theme-hop.
It’s got to regenerate that from somewhere, right? Feels /var/lib-esque, I’ll look there