Constructs the original Genome Light theme with the new Spectrum theme.
Installs:
Spectrum Light Aurorae Theme
Genome Light Color Scheme
Genome Light Classic Plasma Theme
Spectrum Classic Plasma Theme
Spectrum Folders Light Icons
Configuration:
The Spectrum themes change color according to the Color Scheme you have equipped.
From System Settings, go to "Colors" to change your Color Scheme. Go to "Plasma Style" to change between Spectrum themes. Plain themes will change color with your Color Scheme.
To adjust transparency of the panel and menus:
Under Workspace: Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects
"Background contrast" to toggle between 2 levels of transparency.
"Blur" will let you choose the strength of the blur effect as well as noise.
Under Appearance: Application Style > Window Decorations
Switch between the opaque and translucent versions of the window border.
"No Borders" and "No Side Borders" are the recommended window border sizes.
There are a lot of other effects in Desktop Effects to try if you are new to KDE Plasma.
Troubleshooting:
Have you tried turning it off and on again? Sometimes plasma assets will not update and some may still be themed according to something you previously had set. This can usually be fixed by restarting the applications that used the asset (e.g. Dolphin).
To restart just plasmashell, open KRunner with "Alt + F2" to execute the following 2 lines:
Quit plasmashell
kquitapp5 plasmashell
Restart plasmashell
kstart5 plasmashell
tornado99
1 month ago
I would strongly recommend submitting some of the theme's properties such as the frosted highlight box to official Breeze, as it's much more elegant than the current light blue box. And also the highlighting in Task Manager (non Icons-only version) is beautiful.
My only suggestion for improvement would be some tunablilty of the level of "frostiness" / opacity other than the 2 levels possible using the Desktop Effects toggle.
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doncsugar
1 month ago
The Desktop Effects are actually the system-level settings and apply to any theme. I think control of opacity in DEs would be a nice inclusion from KDE. It's possible to change opacity manually by editing the .svg's in a theme's folder in widgets/ ("panel-background", "tooltips") and in dialogs/ ("background"). The other option is enabling background contrast in System Settings and making "enabled=" in the theme's metadata.desktop file equal to true and playing with the 3 values. Both are quite difficult to do, though.
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tornado99
1 month ago
The challenge here is to get a combination of a darkish color and a light color that go well together without straining the eye. Anything too constrasty e.g. black and near-white is not nice to look at. But I find Breeze's blue-gray default a bit boring.
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doncsugar
1 month ago
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tornado99
1 month ago
Breeze has a dark titlebar, but otherwise is similar/same as Breeze Light.
On my custom scheme I changed the titlebar of Breeze to #394551 (Arsenic), and slightly tweaked the Window background to #f5f5f5 (Whitesmoke).
So I was suggesting having 3 schemes: Genome Mix?, Genome Light, and Genome Dark, with Genome Mix having some kind of dark titlebar, but otherwise light.
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doncsugar
1 month ago
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ptalfred
1 month ago
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ptalfred
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arokvh
1 month ago
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doncsugar
1 month ago
yeyushengfan258 has a number of kvantum themes such as this one: https://www.pling.com/p/1383072/
Luwx has been working on an Application Style theme: https://www.pling.com/p/1414190/
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arokvh
1 month ago
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