Intended use of Stylix

Is Stylix meant to be used with no GTK/QT themes at all? I’m a bit confused because I use KDE’s Dolphin, and I guess that since it doesn’t have a home-manager option to install it (only the package), Stylix can’t theme it. So the “fix” in my head is to install a QT theme to avoid Dolphin looking terrible, but that wouldn’t be consistent with the base16 color scheme that I set in Stylix. What is the solution here? Choosing a Stylix color scheme that “goes well” with a GTK/QT theme?

As a side note, I saw on the README in the Stylix repo that there is a screenshot of Dolphin “being styled” by Stylix, and the quote:

KDE theming is still a work in progress - so some manual steps may be needed to apply the settings completely.

although I couldn’t find any information about it. Does anyone know what’s up with that?

Well, here’s the code for it: stylix/modules/kde/hm.nix at 55418e8fc8d4696af619176a22cefcfac56ad2ef · danth/stylix · GitHub

Looks like you can just enable it, but it can be a bit awkward about whether it gets activated after you run your rebuild command or not.

Thanks for your response. Do you happen to know if it only applies themes to KDE apps if you have the whole Plasma desktop? Just to know if it’s a viable solution to my case since I use Hyprland, and I tried to explicitly enable targets.kde and nothing happened with Dolphin (but maybe it’s just the awkardness you mention).

It looks like it should apply to dolphin, but I’m not particularly knowledgeable on KDE themes.

It does not as far a I know right now. I’m currently using this PR qt: add flexible theming with sensible defaults by Mikilio · Pull Request #780 · danth/stylix · GitHub which solves this for me. I don‘t know if this solves it for dolphin because I don‘t use it and saw issues with it in another Stylix PR.