I must ask, isn't that explicitly mentioned on the top side of the "get new..." menu?
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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Some people don't read those popups.
Its entirely their fault, but it happens, and we should account for that by doing things like making these posts where people come specifically to read.
What exactly do you expect users to do when they see "WARNING: what you are doing is unsafe" message? Cause the only outcome I can think of is that they won't install themes at all.
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I've used KDE for more than 10 years. I always take one of the basic themes, [varies by distro] & customize that to my liking. I've never bothered to click "get global themes". I'm willing to spend some time to have a custom theme
As someone who works in infosec, that'd honestly be an ideal outcome. Because users don't check their sources.
What would be better is if countermeasures such as not allowing that kind of code to be run by the theming engine and also code scanning on the repository with automatic takedowns on detection were put in place.
Are we all forgetting rm -rf has the --no-preserve-root safeguard? The accidental engine DataSource culprit seems unlikely. You can experiment yourself with in VM. It's only a couple lines of QML code. Nothing will happen without explicitly turning off safety.
The pling account that posted the theme was registered on February 25 2024. And suddently it has 3800 downloads without anyone else saying anything?
Things aren't adding up. I think this had to be intentional malicious crafted code.
Are we all forgetting rm -rf has the --no-preserve-root safeguard?
How will it help saving the important data that's in /home?
Unless you have your root dir mounted in your home directory! Thanks btrfs. It might be protect by permissions but I wiped a whole disk without --no_preserve_root. It hurts being too clever sometimes. 
You need to delete the a for the link to work
Ta.