diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
 
 find_package(KF5Kirigami2 2.1 REQUIRED)
 
+find_package(LibKWorkspace ${PROJECT_VERSION} REQUIRED)
+
 add_subdirectory(core)
 add_subdirectory(app)
 add_subdirectory(categories)
diff --git a/app/CMakeLists.txt b/app/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/app/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/app/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
     KF5::XmlGui
     KF5::DBusAddons
     KF5::ConfigGui
+    PW::KWorkspace
 )
 
 install( TARGETS systemsettings5 ${KDE_INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS} )
diff --git a/app/main.cpp b/app/main.cpp
--- a/app/main.cpp
+++ b/app/main.cpp
@@ -25,14 +25,18 @@
 #include <KAboutData>
 #include <KCrash>
 
+#include <kworkspace.h>
+
 #include "SystemSettingsApp.h"
 #include "SettingsBase.h"
 
 int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
 {
     //exec is systemsettings5, but we need the QPT to use the right config from the qApp constructor
     //which is before KAboutData::setApplicationData
     QCoreApplication::setApplicationName(QStringLiteral("systemsettings"));
+
+    KWorkSpace::detectPlatform(argc, argv);
     SystemSettingsApp application(argc, argv);
     KCrash::initialize();