ive been trying for hours just to make these fkin windows glassy (thing that in windows took 5 mins aproximately). i installed 999 themes 999 dependencies, kvantum 999 times changed 999 things, 999 kwin scripts etc etc and NOTHING MAKES THEM GLASSY, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

im looking for something like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1mrt7se/kde_glassy_rice/
YES, I TRIED USING THE THINGS FROM THE POST AND THEY DONT WORK AT ALL

I'm trying to use Panel Coloriser to apply my own preset to all my panels. My main bottom panel works perfectly fine, but all my other panels just darken whenever a window gets near them or I enter fullscreen mode.

NOTE: I'm strictly talking about stock GNOME and stock KDE.

As someone who has tried GNOME and KDE both, I don't really understand what people on reddit mean when they say "GNOME has a more consistent user interface" or "GNOME is more polished". Don't get me wrong, this is absolutely not a hate post on GNOME. I have been a GNOME user for a very long time (still use it on my laptop), I'm mentioning this so that it that gives me some credibility to say what I'm about to say. Almost all posts fail to point out concrete example(s) as to why they think GNOME's UI is more consistent than KDE.

Is simplicity being equated with consistency here?

If not, then I don't really think GNOME and adwaita applications are as consistent as KDE applications.

Most KDE applications tend to have the same the decoration, whereas a lot of GNOME applications are yet to be ported to the GTK-4 libadwaita design (take gnome-boxes for instance). On stock KDE, I have yet to see an application that doesn't naturally fit into the aesthetics of the system. For me, UI consistency is just "having the same aesthetics and experience everywhere", then wouldn't KDE and its ecosystem be more consistent then GNOME's ecosystem?

I did feel like KDE's applications are a bit cluttered at first because of the amount of options available to me and the fact that I'm used to the simplicity of GNOME (I call it simple because it intentionally exposes fewer options to the user and implements limited features in its core applications). However, I don't really think having a lot of settings that the user can change and is natively exposed by the desktop environment makes it any less inconsistent or consistent. I have been overwhelmed by the extent of configurability, sure, but I haven't experienced any noticeable inconsistency on KDE.

What am I missing?

Is my definition of consistency incomplete?

Even libreoffice (which looks quite dreadful in GNOME) looks quite polished on KDE.

GNOME's core applications are highly polished and consistent with the new design but I have noticed more inconsistencies on GNOME than I have on KDE. That's not to say either one of them is inconsistent, both of them are fairly consistent, but it's just that when people argue that GNOME's UI is more consistent than KDE, I don't really understand how or why they think that.

I would like to hear if you have encountered anything that you would consider to be inconsistent on KDE when compared to your experience in GNOME.

No AI was used in the making of this post! (if that matters)

I decided to start publishing some of my personal tools on GitHub, starting with my favorite panel utility. This widget has been migrating with me from system to system and evolving along the way.

Before making it public, I spent some time rewriting the hacky parts, removing old workarounds, and polishing the UI/installer so it actually works cleanly out of the box on Plasma 6.

It handles video/audio downloads via yt-dlp directly from the panel, supports cookies, format/codec selection, and keeps its own isolated yt-dlp binary updated in ~/.local/share/.

Note on installation: Because it uses a native C++ QML plugin under the hood, it can't be installed via the one-click button. Just clone/download the archive and run ./install.sh (no root required).

• GitHub Repository
• KDE Store Page

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A month ago I posted WE Span, which runs Wallpaper Engine as a real Plasma 6 wallpaper on Wayland. Since then, Proton, Wine, PipeWire and Steam each found their own way to break it, so here’s what changed:

• Workshop browser built into the app, plus folders, favorites and per-wallpaper settings
• smoother scenes (WE’s frame limiter under Proton can’t count to 60)
• fixed: picture stuck in a corner after a monitor wakes up, Plasma slowing down after a few hours (my fault), scene clocks showing 1859
• new: if Steam gets stuck before launching Wallpaper Engine, WE Span now restarts Steam by itself, instead of you doing it while swearing

Still zero bug reports on GitHub. Either it’s perfect or nobody installed it 😂

github.com/Chaussure-sous-tes-pieds/wespan

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https://reddit.com/link/1xgyof5/video/ki38i08im1yh1/player

Hi! I’m the author of Shiftray, an app that puts asusctl and Cardwire into one small Qt window that opens at the tray icon. I use it daily on a TUF Gaming A15, Fedora 44, Plasma 6 on Wayland.

This is update on how the user may use the app.

It follows your Plasma theme. Every change it makes to the system is listed in Extra → System changes with an Undo button.

GitHub: https://github.com/sprinterz5/shiftray

It’s an early release and so far tested on one laptop, so I’d love feedback from other ASUS users: what’s missing, what breaks?

My dotfile and apps 😄

https://github.com/NextKde/NextKde

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I got tired of opening heavy apps or uploading my files to sketchy ad-filled websites just to convert a single image, merge two PDFs, or compress a quick video.

To stop breaking my daily flow, I built (and partly vibe-coded) McGyver—a free, open-source desktop utility that brings the right tool directly to your cursor.

What it currently does:

• 🎯 Radial Cursor Wheel (Drag + Hold Shift): Grab a file, hold Shift, and a context-aware wheel opens right around your cursor. Aim at a format/action, let go, and the new file lands right next to the original.
• 🛠️ Everyday File Chores Handled: Convert images (WEBP, PNG, JPG, AVIF, HEIC, etc.) & strip EXIF, compress/trim videos and audio (via FFmpeg), merge/split PDFs, convert Office docs to Markdown/PDF, shift subtitles, and handle archives (zip, 7z, tar.zst, etc.).
• 🔒 100% Local, Bloat-Free & Cross-Platform: No cloud uploads, no queues, no accounts. All conversions happen offline on your device. Available for Linux (KDE Plasma 6 / Wayland), macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), and Windows (x64 & ARM64).

You can even test how the wheel feels directly in your browser using the interactive demo on the landing page before downloading anything.

Since it's v1.0.0, I’m looking for early users to test it out, break it, and tell me what's missing. If you like the idea or find it useful, dropping a ⭐ on GitHub would really help me out and give the project some early momentum!

🌐 Website & Interactive Demo:https://mcgyver.ferdiunal.tr/🔗 GitHub Repo:https://github.com/ferdiunal/mcgyver

Thanks for checking it out—any feedback, issue reports, or PRs are more than welcome!

Hi everyone!

A new release of Material Decoration, the KWin decoration with application menus and action search integrated into the titlebar, is available.

Tiling popup

The biggest addition is a Windows 11-style tiling popup. Press and hold Maximize/Restore to choose where to snap your window. Alongside the usual halves and quarters, the popup displays your current screen’s custom KWin layout, which you can edit with Meta+T.

You can also enable opening the popup simply by hovering over Maximize/Restore. This is optional and disabled by default, with a configurable delay. The popup supports both mouse and keyboard navigation.

Uniform colors

Now Menus can follow the decorated window’s color scheme. Enable “Menus follow decoration colors” under Menu and Search, either globally or through a window-specific exception. It is disabled by default.

Other changes you’ll notice:

• Material’s menus no longer appear as separate windows in Overview and Grid View.
• More informative tooltips explain the available press-and-hold actions and point you to Meta+T for editing custom layouts.
• Dragging from Minimize, Maximize or Close no longer accidentally triggers their press-and-hold actions.
• The decoration preview in System Settings renders correctly, without the gaps and visual artifacts reported previously.
• The KCM configuration module uses the modern KDE tab style.

There are also fixes to menu updates and search, including more reliable results when applications change their menus and better handling of open search and overflow menus.

A couple of things to know when updating:

• The tiling popup uses the included Material Tiling Popup KWin script, enabled by default. After its first installation, log out and back in so KWin can discover it.
• For security reasons and to simplify the codebase, Window exceptions now offer exact matching or plain-text substring matching instead of regular expressions. If you used regex-based rules, please review them.

How to get it

• Build from source: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration
• On Arch and derivatives, install material-kwin-decoration-git from the AUR. Precompiled package is available in chaotic-aur. There is not yet a PKGBUILD for the stable version, it will be available soon. The -git version can be regarded as effectively stable, as it is used by the developer on a daily basis in a work environment.
• (K)Ubuntu (26.04+): a deb package is available: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration/releases/tag/26.10.28

Requirements

• Plasma 6.5+ for the master branch, working older versions are in other branches but are not updated/maintained.
• Works both on Wayland and X11 session!

Feature requests? Bugs?

• open an issue here: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration/issues

As the title said, the no titlebar rule is missing in the window rule's settings, which i think is a bug. I need your help, idk if it just me or is it just because of the 6.8 update. Thank you :)

Anybody who is currently running Plasma Bigscreen having a problem with changes to System settings within the Bigscreen settings not saving once you back out? Any togglable setting changes get changed back when I back out.

Changes are saved everywhere else, just not any changes I make specifically under the 'System' tab within the Bigscreen settings menu.

The only setting I am able to change within this menu is the theme. I also can't set any shortcuts.

I achieved this in GNOME with an extension very easily but am completely new to KDE and it's kind of a make or break thing because it's such a good workflow for me.

hello everybody, since there's a bug that freezes some laptops that use kde plasma, i've decided to switch to niri for a bit until it gets fixed.

Currently, I'm having problems changing theme aspects using the nwg-look software, everytime i apply changes they don't happen globally unless I restart the system, and only happen instantly on some apps, like libreoffice, but not on dolphin or konsole.

So I'd like to ask if there might be some interference from something that gets installed along with kde plasma or a config of some sort.

I'm not well versed in the technicalities of many things on linux desktop, so any help is appreciated, thanks!

Also, im using the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk3 so that qt apps follows gtk themes.