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Extensions need to follow standards, and be installed as non-executable files in defined categories.
Everything else has to be removed or behind a huge warning.
That is not possible. widgets and Global themes have to be able to execute code to work.
By the way: the code was not malicious, just badly written.
I think that is one of the questions being debated by the Plasma developers. You may have more luck getting a complete answer here:
https://matrix.to/#/#plasma:kde.org
Why do global themes need to do that? Arent they just color and image files, maybe audio?
It doesnt really matter if the code was malicious or not, this should not be possible.
Another example of how damn insecure linux is. Just because its not the snap store, we dont have tons of malicious addons on pling.
@Pantherina @Bro666
That is regular themes.
_Global_ themes also modify the desktop's behavior and hence contain code to do that.