[20:09] <acheronuk> notmart: the change switching to folderview for the desktop by default in 5.10. would that do anything nasty or ugly if that one line change was backported to plasma 5.9 for a distro's packages? 
[20:10] <notmart> acheronuk: as a distro patch, no not particularly
[20:11] <notmart> usually distros are encouraged to have their own look&feel package for this kind of stuff
[20:11] <notmart> unless, they want to be as close as possible for the default