Bug? "plasma-apply-colorscheme --accent-color" isn't represented in the normal color settings menu

I am doing some work on my little scheduled color-changing service, and I found what looks like a bug. If I run plasma-apply-colorscheme --accent-color, the accent color change it isn’t represented in Plasma’s normal color management GUI menu. The accent color, according to that settings window, appear as it was before the command was run. This might seem minor, but I suspect that something behind the scenes is unhappy, because the accent color change takes a minute to propagate to everywhere, and one time when I did this the icons in the system settings menu all broke.

I’m seeing this on two different systems. Can anyone replicate?

Unless I’m mistaken, I think this bug is already on its way to being fixed ; https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444043

If that’s not specific to the way you’re implementing your experience, it might be worth logging another bug for what you’re seeing in your service. Do you get any log output on the console?

I did come across this, but I wasn’t very sure of my understanding of the terminology. I didn’t see a mention of using the terminal to change colors, so I guessed that it wasn’t what I was dealing with.

I’ve done a little more digging, and there’s definitely something that’s been broken for automating theme changes based on a scheduled change ; this bug is specific to other people trying some of what you’re trying to do ; https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460643 (related merge request : https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2230)

I’m sorry I can’t be of more help, but it might be worth posting this in discuss.kde.org to get more traction, some great people there too, including Nate Graham, who is pretty much Lead on Plasma.

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