diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
 
-find_package(KF5 ${KF5_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED CoreAddons Config Crash DBusAddons I18n Archive XmlGui ItemModels KIO)
+find_package(KF5 ${KF5_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED CoreAddons Config Crash DBusAddons I18n Archive XmlGui ItemModels KIO Declarative)
 find_package(KF5Kirigami2 2.1.0)
 
 find_package(packagekitqt5 1.0.1 CONFIG)
diff --git a/discover/CMakeLists.txt b/discover/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/discover/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/discover/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
                                      KF5::XmlGui
                                      KF5::ItemModels
                                      KF5::KIOWidgets
+                                     KF5::QuickAddons
                                      Qt5::Quick
                                      Discover::Common
 )
diff --git a/discover/main.cpp b/discover/main.cpp
--- a/discover/main.cpp
+++ b/discover/main.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <KAboutData>
 #include <KCrash>
 #include <KDBusService>
+#include <KQuickAddons/QtQuickSettings>
 #include <KLocalizedString>
 #include <QCommandLineParser>
 #include <qwindow.h>
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@
     app.setAttribute(Qt::AA_DontCreateNativeWidgetSiblings);
     app.setAttribute(Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps, true);
     KCrash::initialize();
+    KQuickAddons::QtQuickSettings::init();
     KLocalizedString::setApplicationDomain("plasma-discover");
     KAboutData about(QStringLiteral("discover"), i18n("Discover"), version, i18n("An application explorer"),
                      KAboutLicense::GPL, i18n("© 2010-2018 Plasma Development Team"));