KDE ADVISES EXTREME CAUTION AFTER THEME WIPES USER’S FILES

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

In light of a Reddit user reporting that installing a KDE Plasma theme wiped all of their files, KDE has issued a warning to vet themes before installing them. This is because themes can be uploaded by anyone and by the nature of how they change the behavior of KDE, they must execute arbitrary code. KDE has promised to make its security warnings more clear and, resources permitting, begin to vet themes.