diff --git a/startkde/startkde.cmake b/startkde/startkde.cmake
--- a/startkde/startkde.cmake
+++ b/startkde/startkde.cmake
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
 #Set the QtQuickControls style to our own: for QtQuickControls1
 #it will fall back to Desktop, while it will use our own org.kde.desktop
 #for QtQuickControlsStyle and Kirigami
+export QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_1_STYLE=Desktop
 export QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE=org.kde.desktop
 
 # XCursor mouse theme needs to be applied here to work even for kded or ksmserver
diff --git a/startkde/startplasma.cmake b/startkde/startplasma.cmake
--- a/startkde/startplasma.cmake
+++ b/startkde/startplasma.cmake
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 #Set the QtQuickControls style to our own: for QtQuickControls1
 #it will fall back to Desktop, while it will use our own org.kde.desktop
 #for QtQuickControlsStyle and Kirigami
+export QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_1_STYLE=Desktop
 export QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE=org.kde.desktop
 
 #In wayland we want Plasma to use Qt's scaling