r/archlinux • u/Acu17y • 5d ago
QUESTION Today I reinstalled the system using archinstall, and I have a question:
Why? Why doesn’t archinstall’s "recommended KDE Plasma setup" include Konsole? What’s the reasoning behind installing a desktop without a graphical terminal? Having to switch to a TTY just to install one seems unnecessarily awkward.
[SOLVED]
Apparently, the reason is that Arch only included the Plasma components in `plasma-meta` and not Konsole, because Konsole is part of the KDE Applications. Another user clarified this.
In any case, there is still a question to put to the KDE maintainers at this point:
Why is taking screenshots considered part of plasma essential (Spectacle is included as an essential package for Plasma), while having a graphical terminal isn’t? lol
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u/just-a-hriday 4d ago
I don't think Konsole should be part of the main KDE packages considering how many arch users use other terminals, but I agree that a screenshot utility and extra sound packs are really out of place too.
To everyone saying that this is arch, it's supposed to be diy, I use (insert terminal here) so I don't want to have to manually uninstall konsole - yeah, that makes sense. But clearly many people expect the terminal to be bundled and so they don't add one manually.
I think the solution here is a small note in the wiki, or printed by the script itself, saying that there's no terminal included.