KDE Plasma Wild Customizations!

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[Duckly]

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

[michadybczak]

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 ;).

[Beryesa.]

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

[sjimosui]

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]

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 🙃

[MrsBifflechips]

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!

[toranshaw]

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

[SCP--A_CLASS-EUCLID]

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).

[ToallpointsWest]

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

[Mina-Ashido]

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.

[ihdi]

KDE world needs channels like this one :)

[CAZOlsen]

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

[HeathenHacks]

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

[phrtao]

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.

[deutandev]

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

[Your_Degenerate]

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.

[RTPTechTips]

Great channel! Love this type of stuff. Subscribed.

[J-_-]

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.

[wallnuts]

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.

[ChrispyNut]

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. 🤞