KDE 5 auth/look problems

I upgraded to KDE 5 (Plasma 2, KDE Frameworks 5.6, KDE Apps 14.12) and I must say it was a huge error. I completely reget doing it, and I should have learned from the mistake with KDE 4.x.
Anyways, It's already done. Now I'm having quite some problems.
The first one, which is the most important is that KDE auth (or polkit, or I don't know what name it has because apparently KDe guys like changing names every 2 months) isn't working.
I open systemsettings and try to enable the auto-login feature, and then a password dialog shows up, asking for my password. I really don't know if it's asking for my user's password or root's password,
but this really should make any difference as both passwords are the same (please, right now I don't want to hear anything about how bad that is and how unprotected I am. Focus on my problems).
Anyways, after typing my password, the dialog just says that's not the password and doesn't apply the changes. Why is this happening?
The second problem is that all KDE4 apps (Dolphin, for example) look really bad. The Wiki says to check my styles, but hell I did check and recheck them and I can't see how to fix that. How am I supposed to workaround this bug?
Regards

alexandernst wrote:
I upgraded to KDE 5 (Plasma 2, KDE Frameworks 5.6, KDE Apps 14.12) and I must say it was a huge error. I completely reget doing it, and I should have learned from the mistake with KDE 4.x.
Anyways, It's already done. Now I'm having quite some problems.
The first one, which is the most important is that KDE auth (or polkit, or I don't know what name it has because apparently KDe guys like changing names every 2 months) isn't working.
The second problem is that all KDE4 apps (Dolphin, for example) look really bad. The Wiki says to check my styles, but hell I did check and recheck them and I can't see how to fix that. How am I supposed to workaround this bug?
Regards
No issues with autologin or authentication on a fresh Plasma 5.2 system here. KDE accepts my normal user password. You could have a look at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.policy if there is something wrong with the defaults settings
For the second issue, check my own post from here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1495601

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