KDE Plasma Wild Customizations!

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  • Опубліковано 7 лис 2024

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  • @Beryesa.
    @Beryesa. Рік тому +45

    Caution to viewers:
    Beware, a wild KDE might appear!
    :D

  • @AQDuck
    @AQDuck Рік тому +17

    I love that you can COMPLETELY change the feel of Plasma to the point where it feels like a different DE.

  • @michadybczak4862
    @michadybczak4862 Рік тому +36

    One of the biggest issues during customizations:
    - icons don't have icons for all apps you won't have on the panel/dock, literally destroying a look you hoped to achieve - happens frequently
    - kvantum is not always good on all apps, for most it is, but there are various visual bugs that you find later and they drive you crazy
    - there might be no matching colors between elements, so different window parts aren't unified
    - customization looks awesome, but is not practical and not applied ideally in all places and apps, so it looks out of place
    - plasma themes have usually broken or incoherent icons (very frequent issue), so when you apply them, some are badly visible or out of place, or there are menu elements that don't work with your setup, etc.
    To match all various components well require many hours of experiments and is a tedious task, but in the end, it is possible to find some decent combination (but there are always some issues, nothing works 100% as you hoped to).
    In other DEs, customizations ends very early and usually nothing fits together well, so you are forced to use very few combinations, while only the defaults offer a good coherence and practicality. Plasma offers so much more, but make you work for it ;).

    • @muhammadjamal347
      @muhammadjamal347 Рік тому

      Icons are a big issue, i mostly try to use monochrome icons first there are alot of good options, and if something doesnt exist you can just pop the icon in photoshop and make it monochrome easily

    • @muhammadjamal347
      @muhammadjamal347 Рік тому

      by photoshop i mean gimp, dont go hard on me

  • @sjimosui8279
    @sjimosui8279 Рік тому +12

    Really Liked the Video! Amazing
    Would love to see the customisation video that focuses on stock plasma settings without much add-ons show the Power of plasma 😆

  • @KuruGDI
    @KuruGDI Рік тому +9

    What I want to see in a customisation video is how you can test certain styles without applying them.
    I would may test the look and feel of some from the KDE store, but I'm always afraid that they mess with my settings and that there is no easy way back to my current look and feel. The current look and feel is maybe not as exiting and as good looking as the examples from the video, but it's efficient and it works. I'd rather not test too much around since if I would lose my customised behaviour I would watch the next video from the mental asylum 🙃

  • @deutandev1728
    @deutandev1728 Рік тому +4

    Regarding customizations, I'd like to be able to arrange system tray icons. Currently I only can disable/enable it.

  • @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115

    Your previous video on KDE made me subscribe. I got overwhelmed by the customization, and all the features I could not understand (now a Cinnamon sucker).

  • @toranshaw4029
    @toranshaw4029 Рік тому

    Been using the default Plasma for a few weeks now and have reached the point where I am starting to customise it! 🙂

  • @MrsBifflechips
    @MrsBifflechips Рік тому +1

    3:15 About the lack of blur in the transparent windows, I have found that Wayland on Nvidia (proprietary drivers, at least) behaves very poorly with blur. I have found that it causes a trail of opaque squares to follow the cursor, and other weird artifacts which are not present without blur, or under X11 with blur.
    These are some very cool customisations. Awesome job to the people doing them!

  • @ToallpointsWest
    @ToallpointsWest Рік тому +3

    Great video! I always enjoy seeing what's possible with KDE!

  • @5ihdi
    @5ihdi Рік тому +2

    KDE world needs channels like this one :)

  • @ChrispyNut
    @ChrispyNut Рік тому +7

    Latte top panel has one critical advantage over KDE panel, which is the ability to remove title bar when maximised and just grab the top panel to drag the window as if grabbing the window's title bar.
    I uninstalled Latte a few weeks ago and moved over the KDE panels and I REALLY miss that feature. I have many fingers crossed that someone figures out a way to do it and puts in an MR in sometime soon. 🤞

    • @shawnpeterson2523
      @shawnpeterson2523 Рік тому +2

      You can do it. Technically. i did the same thing a while back. I eventually got tired of it and switched back to a more vanilla look. Probably spent 45 minutes trying to remember the setting / config file I needed to revert (I once again don’t remember), whereas latte had a simple switch.

    • @HenriqueSantAnna
      @HenriqueSantAnna Рік тому

      You can use a kwin rule or kwin script to hide titlebar when maximized. The drag thing is already an option that can be enabled disabled on Plasma settings.

    • @ChrispyNut
      @ChrispyNut Рік тому

      @@HenriqueSantAnna Titlebar bit's easy to find, there are loads of search results with solutions for doing that. However "the drag bit" has no solutions, which aren't Latte or inner window dragging. So please, do detail where in plasma settings, rather than just confidently asserting (like the other responder) that it can be done with a vague reference.

  • @iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_
    @iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_ Рік тому +1

    im using kde plasma again for almost a year now, i still love it... i know these for so many years... but i had a long time gnome... yeah i was lazy and boring 🤗

  • @Mina-Ashido97
    @Mina-Ashido97 Рік тому

    I haven't been following for a long time so I don't know if this is the only video dedicated to showing community-made skins, but I hope we get to see more.

  • @HeathenHacks
    @HeathenHacks Рік тому +2

    What I would like to see (in the future) is a transparent/blurred KDE panel where the icons, system tray, widgets, etc are not affected by the opacity change. :D

  • @CAZOlsen
    @CAZOlsen Рік тому +2

    I like the one with all the blur
    And personally i like to see kde have an desktop environment picker like they have in zorin and other distros

  • @linuxgamingbr
    @linuxgamingbr Рік тому +2

    That's great. I personally love to customize my kde, I've made some videos of kde 5.25/5.26 customization on my Channel, I'm waiting for kde 5.27 to arrive on BigLinux to create another one

  • @wallnuts47
    @wallnuts47 Рік тому +2

    Hey Nicco. Great video as usual. I would like the ability to place the tittle bar on the bottom or the sides of the windows. You can move the panels where you want.I think this ability would go hand in hand with that.

  • @phrtao
    @phrtao Рік тому

    It is not just the cosmetics and layouts that KDE allows you to change. There is immense scope for changing functionality. How your windows function, how you switch applications, handle multiple desktops and much more can all be changed.
    I use one plasma panel at the top that auto hides. It has all my window controls, app menu and system tray (with most items hidden behind the drop down). I don't have a task list or desktop pager widget at all, instead I use the windows and desktop overviews (activated by 2 panel buttons, shortcuts and mouse gestures) to see what is currently running. It gives a very minimal desktop with plenty of space which really suits my 14" laptop screen.

  • @crazycatman4171
    @crazycatman4171 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for the video. I would like to see how you customize the Plasma panel to look like Latte dock / macOS dock, including "intelligent autohide".
    Afaik it is not possible to make Plasma dock use a "parabolic zooming effect" - or could you also show how to do this?

    • @arghyaS
      @arghyaS Рік тому +1

      nice suggestions

  • @TheGreatestest
    @TheGreatestest Рік тому +3

    A macos kind of theme, mainly the panels arrangement would be pretty cool

  • @Your_Degenerate
    @Your_Degenerate Рік тому +2

    The first theme is great. Perhaps the creator would consider expanding on the icon pack some time.
    One thing that might be a bit technical but interesting to know what's involved in is the making of are the Application Themes. For a long time I had only seen Breeze, Kvantum, Oxygen, and Lightly but now a few more have popped up.

  • @CMDRSweeper
    @CMDRSweeper Рік тому +1

    You did a good thing by putting the Windows look alikes in here as well, a lot of switchers would probably start out with one of these...
    Then they start their journey and end up with something completely different.

  • @lua-nya
    @lua-nya Рік тому +1

    Back in the day I used to have wobbly windows with desktop cube and stuff... between debian, KDE, and compiz it was around 1GB RAM... that was a lot back then, so I used gnome more often. This was the last time I went out of my way to rice my desktops.

    • @michadybczak4862
      @michadybczak4862 Рік тому

      Wobbly windows are still part of the main experience for me. Kwin has that effect built in, so you can enable it and customize at any time. I also use improved lamp effect (yet another magick lamp). Compiz is in the past, but kwin is still there.

  • @ricardovargas292
    @ricardovargas292 Рік тому

    Excelente video, mucha variedad de escritorios para elegir 👍

  • @RickySupriyadi
    @RickySupriyadi Рік тому

    latte dock and kvantum... I really love that dock

  • @NautilusMortanian
    @NautilusMortanian Рік тому +1

    As impressive as the clone/retroclone themes are, I'm more interested in new styles and looks. Stuff that pushes Plasma forward, I'd love to see a video on that.

  • @iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_
    @iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_ Рік тому

    i should look u guys up on the reddit, thank for sharing bro... take care!!!

  • @DenisFalqueto
    @DenisFalqueto Рік тому

    I love these kind of videos!

  • @RTPTechTips
    @RTPTechTips Рік тому

    Great channel! Love this type of stuff. Subscribed.

  • @Benjie56
    @Benjie56 Рік тому

    You need to mention klassy in that video. I especially like the window control buttons which take up the fill height and width of their space, rather than being small circles.I also like the thick window outlines with a custom colour.

  • @J-_-
    @J-_- Рік тому +1

    Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the time and effort the devs put into it but I feel like I'm the only one left that still switches to the 'application menu' from kickoff or other panel menus regardless of distro. Guess I just prefer it simple and not overdone.

  • @scratchydev
    @scratchydev Рік тому +1

    Your latest videos look really nice

  • @RenderingUser
    @RenderingUser Рік тому +1

    ey yo
    blue red gradient is easily the best color gradient for a background

  • @guss77
    @guss77 Рік тому +1

    Plank: this is actually the dock from Elementary OS' Pantheon desktop environment.
    Regarding showing Plasma mimicking other operating systems and joe23rep's customizing: I think he was going for a GNOME look...
    Finally, most of these look very pretty, but that would never work for me, because I use a slideshow for the wallpaper: I can't have the same wallpaper all the time. Any very specific design will not work well with just a random wallpaper from my library, so I have to use one of the generic styles.

  • @sgky2k
    @sgky2k Рік тому +1

    Would ya make a video about your video production workflow? That'd be nice.

    • @niccoloveslinux
      @niccoloveslinux  Рік тому +1

      That sounds like the kind of video that I'd do as a bonus to patrons :P but why not

  • @FengLengshun
    @FengLengshun Рік тому +1

    All of them are so cool. If only I'm not so lazy and just throws Garuda's Unity-like defaults (but without Latte, using just normal Plasma panels) with window titles, buttons, and appmenu at the topbar and a dock-like task manager panel at the bottom, along with hide-titles KWin script to hide the titlebar when maximized... Then I just throw in Whitesur-dark-solid for plasma, gtk, qt, sddm, libadwaita themes and be done with it.
    It is what works for me though, but I really wish that psifidotos widgets aren't so annoying to build and that we have a binary for it, but it is what it is.

  • @GustavoSaramago
    @GustavoSaramago Рік тому

    The taskbar is the central part of the Desktop Environment experience. Sadly, KDE task bar lacks customization options, and iherit KDE 4 complex custiomization scheme.
    I woould love to see Latte Dock, or some equivalent Qt 6 product incorporated in the KDE 6 code base. That would be a game changer.

  • @little_forest
    @little_forest Рік тому +1

    To me, customization of a Linux DE never means (only) the looks, but functionality. And how you interact with it. And even though many people say, that you can do "everything" with Plasma... you can't, you really can't.
    Functionally and regarding the workflow I am craving something like the material-shell for Gnome, which has certain bugs which make it unusable for me. But it is just so efficient to always see what windows are open on one desktop and at the same time on a different (part of the) panel what goes on on different desktops. But the way Plasma shows desktops in a panel makes it impossible to achieve a similar clarity.

  • @MartinAhlman
    @MartinAhlman Рік тому

    Nice looks (apart from the Windows ones, they really suck), but I still wish Linux mint made an Openbox much like the Bunsenlab distro (but easier to manage the menus, I can't find any way to do what I want even after googling it.). That would be perfect for me.
    What KDE lacks is simplicity. Lots of ways to make it look pretty, and everything is hidden away among all the settings. Yes, you can change most things, but finding how to do it is a mess. And that's why I don't use KDE.
    I'm still happy that you are so passionate about this! It's wonderful!

  • @ytbone9430
    @ytbone9430 11 місяців тому

    I was looking for ways to open the context menu and toolbar editor to create custom menus and action items like "Image -> Rotate Left", "Image -> Resize" or "Music -> Convert to MP3", "Music -> Convert to AAC" etc.. What I found was some documentation on how to create single menu entries (in external desktop files?) with very limited functionality. Is this all there is? Thank you!

  • @survivor303
    @survivor303 Рік тому

    i like kde because you can custom it but still, i use it's default dark theme :D i customize mainly keyboard shortcuts, font and cursor sizes :D

  • @legend9188
    @legend9188 Рік тому +1

    Really nice video, also nice new channel icon 👍

  • @regeditxregeditx9790
    @regeditxregeditx9790 Рік тому

    i wish we could get the ability to grab the window from the plasma panel like latte... i kinda emulated my latte setup but that feature is a must >.

  • @guilherme5094
    @guilherme5094 Рік тому

    Really amazing👍

  • @iluheraldento2102
    @iluheraldento2102 Рік тому

    WOW! AWSM video design )

  • @yeshey5443
    @yeshey5443 Рік тому

    As to what cutomization video kind we'd like to see, here are my 2 cents.
    I'd like to see how much customization possible to do with default plasma, or with minimal extra tools. For example, you said in the last theme that we could achieve that look with normal KDE panel, I have no idea how to do that xd.
    Part of the reason I keep the default KDE look is because Installing themes and customizing never works as well as the default, icons can't support all the icons that exist, installing a lot of different customization tools more likely to break on new updates or major distro updates.
    Having the latte dock always kinda bothered me a little, the way I understand it, it's also a official plasma project, and it bugs me that the KDE panel and the latte dock aren't the same project.
    So a guide on how to make one of these wild configurations using default KDE, or using minimal third party tools, or just overall using methods that are less likely to break over time would be nice

  • @sohrobby
    @sohrobby Рік тому

    Papyrus icon theme is where it’s at.

  • @alicealysia
    @alicealysia Рік тому

    What I desperately need to know is why latte performs so poorly on my system;
    It feels unresponsive, like the animations are waiting several milliseconds before starting.
    The parabolic zoom feels... uncertain, like it's amplifying any inaccuracies of my mouse movements.
    And the autohide is not particularly forgiving, like it hides immediately after my mouse moves away.
    Is there a way I can fix this? Or am I stuck with plank forever?

  • @vitormelo22
    @vitormelo22 Рік тому

    Lightly is amazing, I use this theme.

  • @mortezaa306
    @mortezaa306 Рік тому +1

    My problem with Plasma panels is that you can not change panels per activity. So I forced to use latte.

  • @marcelomafra
    @marcelomafra Рік тому

    On the customization video topic: how close can I get to Gnome's workflow/style in Plasma 5.27? :) ;)

  • @TV-kj3gi
    @TV-kj3gi Рік тому

    Nicco, you were talking about customization to look like Windows,
    Here it was ommitted to talk about customization look like Mac os.
    Make one video showing customization look like Mac os, and by the way you can show some other customizations look like Unix (if any) and looks of other OS

  • @m.m3633
    @m.m3633 Рік тому

    A wild customization video and you totally forgot about about replicating unity!

  • @erikreider
    @erikreider Рік тому

    Cool backdrop!

  • @ruukes4770
    @ruukes4770 Рік тому

    Hey Nicco what is the name of that widget that gives you a windows 10 style start menu.

  • @יובלהרמן-ח2ד
    @יובלהרמן-ח2ד Рік тому

    Only if you have the time for it, but could you put chapters on this video? It's really helpful. Big prish!

  • @nelduarte311
    @nelduarte311 Рік тому

    Hi, KDE is not allowing apps run in systray (flameshot, megasync, etc) and the panel configuration does not allow panel height less than 32. Can this be fixed? Thank you.

  • @teknogear1705
    @teknogear1705 Рік тому

    Question... How can you Customize KDE and save it as your Global Theme so you can return to it in one click and apply...

  • @vicca4671
    @vicca4671 Рік тому

    Just wishing we could do transparent application styles without external packages. Kvantum is nice but feels a bit like a hack sometimes, and the Lightly and Klassy app styles are still not 100% perfect.

  • @ruukes4770
    @ruukes4770 Рік тому

    Wow I'm seeing this video only an hour after its making

  • @loginpc6000
    @loginpc6000 Рік тому

    Do these themes show up in settings-appearance-get new global themes?

  • @CuvelierPhilippe
    @CuvelierPhilippe 4 місяці тому

    Akava 🎉 will try it soon

  • @د.محمدمحمودسرحان

    How can I create multiple desktops so that each desktop has its own separate background, icons, and banel?

  • @alx8439
    @alx8439 Рік тому +1

    Reg customization, we all know that KDE is great at that. But what I find tedious is that all these customization you shown in a video are not something you can click to install via KDE Settings app. Why is that?

  • @bobmavric2857
    @bobmavric2857 Рік тому

    Can these customizations damage the os or make it unstable?

  • @zmaz3898
    @zmaz3898 Рік тому

    Love from India

  • @MarkMann1
    @MarkMann1 Рік тому +1

    Is there a way to save these custom configurations?

    • @niccoloveslinux
      @niccoloveslinux  Рік тому +1

      Will talk about that in the next vid!

    • @MarkMann1
      @MarkMann1 Рік тому +1

      @@niccoloveslinux Alright, because I have a custom config to make up for latte-dock's lack of development on wayland and I have to remake it every time I want to make a theme. Thank you for the reply.

  • @teklife
    @teklife Рік тому

    to each his own, but, the clock in the center sucks if you want global menu, or launchers. nothing hard about glancing to the top right to see the time.

  • @wergwerg-n1y
    @wergwerg-n1y Рік тому

    what are the icons in 10:13

  • @yugen042
    @yugen042 Рік тому

    plasma panel shadows are not implementable? why?

  • @c30ra
    @c30ra Рік тому

    Krunner, i don't like how it look now, I would like something like windows 10

  • @ryuketsuekiofficial
    @ryuketsuekiofficial Рік тому

    I half expected to see my customization here since my video got 22k views by now

  • @RenderingUser
    @RenderingUser Рік тому +1

    7:42
    i think you forgot arc dark

  • @aquaponieee
    @aquaponieee Рік тому

    i wish like there was an accurate aero theme but that isn't very possible

  • @KuruGDI
    @KuruGDI Рік тому

    My first question was why you would re-create a Windows style UI. You wouldn't install Edge either, would you? On the other hand I'm using the Tiled Menu myself because I love how you can group applications behind one icon and open them with two clicks in total (so _look his talking_ I guess)
    However, my next thought was that this might be not that bad since it could make the transition much easier for Windows users since much of the controls is pretty much where you would expect them to be. I have chosen KDE neon with KDE Plasma because it was close to Windows and I didn't assume that I would have to learn that much to control the basics of it. The first few months were still quite the pain though and I still had to relearn quite a lot. And now imagine that I would have to relearn controlling the GUI as well.

  • @unstable000
    @unstable000 Рік тому

    Lightly installation please

  • @xTerminatorAndy
    @xTerminatorAndy Рік тому

    nice video, but please loose the rigid thinking of "this MUST be there or there" customisation means customisation. So if someone wants their clock inside out on the back of their monitor, you should accept that :-P

  • @owlmostdead9492
    @owlmostdead9492 Рік тому

    Meanwhile KDE still can’t securely handle passwords, why isn’t the rewriting of kwallet and how passwords are handled the #1 priority of the entire KDE project?
    I can’t and will not use until KDE until this is fixed, it’s an issue since at least 2016.
    KDE is the least secure DE until then.

    • @xTerminatorAndy
      @xTerminatorAndy Рік тому +1

      why do you expect your desktop manager to handle your passwords? There are applications specifically made for that like keepass

  • @miles_dredd5813
    @miles_dredd5813 Рік тому

    plank don't run on wayland ☹️

  • @Videohead-eq5cy
    @Videohead-eq5cy Рік тому

    Nice bisexual lighting

  • @itildude
    @itildude Рік тому +2

    I will just never understand making Linux look like Windows. Ewww.

    • @lobotomizedjellyfish2171
      @lobotomizedjellyfish2171 Рік тому

      Initially I thought the same thing, however I can see how that would be appealing to new users who want a familiar experience without all the telemetry and other Microsoft spyware crap.

  • @vaisakh_km
    @vaisakh_km Рік тому

    AROS like customization..... anyone??

  • @BiserAngelov1
    @BiserAngelov1 Рік тому

    What lack of imagination, to have all the tools, that qt and plasma offer, and make your desktop look like MS Windows. Your desktop can be out-of-worldly. Some of the other examples, were far more awesome.

  • @deathdoor
    @deathdoor Рік тому

    Windows 'sexpi".
    Hum...

  • @kristjanminnatharmet8961
    @kristjanminnatharmet8961 Рік тому

    Most of those are very much a waste of space and too colourful looks. I like my desktop way more minimalistic and easy on the eyes, simply because it makes me more productive.

  • @mistermistero652
    @mistermistero652 Рік тому +3

    First lol

  • @c.n.crowther438
    @c.n.crowther438 9 місяців тому

    Lol, just seeing what you like I know you would absolutely hate my setup 😂
    It's loud, childish and based on CommunalitySol.