Breeze AlphaBlack

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Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/Zren/breeze-alphablack

Description:

I took the default Breeze Light theme and made all the panel related stuff a slightly transparent black.

The "AlphaBlack Control" widget (https://store.kde.org/p/1237963/) will be automatically installed to quickly change the theme's colors or the panel transparency. It should appear in the system tray after relogging with widgets unlocked.

* [Pager] I removed the transparent blue fill on the active desktop in the pager, instead using just a white outline to show which is selected (similar to dexpot).
* [Tasks] Don't use a solid fill on minimized tasks.

After installing, run the following to set the panel / breeze window border colors.
python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/desktoptheme.py set theme.accentColor 0,0,0

=[ Other Stuff ]=
Menu: https://store.kde.org/p/1160672/
Volume Mixer: https://store.kde.org/p/1100894/
Calendar: https://store.kde.org/p/998901/
Win7 Show Desktop: https://store.kde.org/p/1100895/
Alt+Tab Skin: https://store.kde.org/p/1153173/

Last changelog:

v18 - December 11 2020 1 month ago

* Fix pale popups caused by the Background Contrast Desktop Effect (Issue #21). Added `ContrastEffect` properties in `metadata.desktop` in an attempt to fix it, however the proper fix was to ship a pre-generated `dialogs/background.svg`.
* Refactor `background.svg` to add `dialog.radius` which doesn't really work well.
* Fix `resettitlebarcolors` mentioned in AlphaBlackControl's Issue 2.
* Only use blue shifted DecorationFocus for Complementary colors (Issue #20)
* Set Header color group to fix white `plasmoidheading.svg` in Plasma 5.20

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catseba
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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banzaigtv
2 months ago

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ftrh
1 year ago

thanks, after update to 5.16, my window decoration always reset color and it's look like the theme always reset the color after reboot

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ferchoj
1 year ago

After updating plasma to versin 5.16.0 under kde neon all widgets are white.

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delux
1 year ago

9 9 excellent

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stroum
1 year ago

9 +

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khatat
1 year ago

After updating plasma to the latest version (5.15.3) under arch this widget is kina broken. When changing the transparency it will make everything white.

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Zren
1 year ago

The Qt 5.12.2 update is actually what broke it and the default breeze dark theme. I'll be uploading a new version soonish.

https://github.com/Zren/breeze-alphablack/issues/13

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khatat
1 year ago

oh thanks for info!

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Zren
1 year ago

I uploaded v15 which has a fix for the generated popup's with custom opacity, however both the default popup background, and the tooltips will probably still be bugged until the upstream breeze theme is fixed (which is shipped in plasma-frameworks). If they hold back fixing it till the 5.57.0 release next month, I'll upload a v16 that overrides those SVGs, but tbh, I expect Arch to patch in a fix sooner that that.

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khatat
1 year ago

Thank you. I appreciate your work!!

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cambionn
1 year ago

I noticed that the highlight colour changer (which I was really happy with as I have everything blackXgreen opposed to blackXblue) doesn't change the blue line underneath the active window (when not hovering over it), the blue line above KDE/Manjaro/start button when clicking it, and the blue line above favourites, applications, computer, etc when hovering over those options. Any way I can fix that? All other colours have nicely changed to the one I selected, only those three bars haven't.

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cambionn
1 year ago

Just noticed the bar above selected widgets is also blue and not green.

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ftrh
2 years ago

love this theme so much, i have use it for long time, but several days ago, i have reinstalled my system, and now, why this theme have a rectangle corner ? previously, it's rounded, is there any way to change the corner radius ?

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Zren
2 years ago

I recently noticed that Breeze does not use the round corners either, so I fixed it. If you want to use the old rounded corners svg:

1. Go to ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/
2. Under the _templates/widgets/ folder is a background.svg which is the rectangular corner background. Delete it.
https://github.com/Zren/breeze-alphablack/blob/master/_templates/widgets/background.svg
3. Download the old rounded corner background.svg
https://github.com/Zren/breeze-alphablack/blob/2616c8c9855f65d6872be619d5d759a0bc4f5cb2%5E/_templates/widgets/background.svg
4. Using the widget or the `python setdialogopacity.py 0.9` script, change the dialog opacity so that it renders the `breeze-alphablack/widgets/background.svg` file and reloads the desktop theme.

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v18 - December 11 2020 1 month ago

v17 - June 16 2020 7 months ago

* Added `widgets/plasmoidheading.svg` to show the solid notification heading like Breeze. It's only displayed if the current theme has the svg, it does not inherit this svg.
* Removed all deprecated `set___color.py` scripts. Use the `desktoptheme.py` subcommands.

v16 - March 15 2020 10 months ago

* Move `set___color.py` etc into `desktoptheme.py` as subcommands. Eg: `python3 desktoptheme.py set dialog.opacity 0.7`. The existing scripts are deprecated and will be removed in the next version.
* Add ability to set dialog padding with `python3 desktoptheme.py set dialog.padding 2`. Note that you need to close a popup and reopen it to see the change in padding. You may need to run the command a few times for it to take effect.

v15 - March 17 2019 1 year ago

* Cleanup the desktop widget background svg coordinates (`widget/background.svg`).
* Use Breeze's rectangle new rounded corner popup dialog svg from KDE Frameworks 5.56.
* Fix the dialog popup color (when using a custom opacity) broken by the Qt 5.12.2 update. The default dialog popups and tooltips will be fixed in KDE Frameworks 5.56.2 or 5.57.0.

v14 - December 15 2018 2 years ago

* Use Breeze's rectangle corner popup svg. Somewhere along the line this theme ended up using a different svg with round corners for some reason.
* Add `sethighlightcolor.py` to set the selection/highlight color.

v13 - October 12 2018 2 years ago

* Hide the panel shadow when the panel opacity is set below 30% (`0.3`).
* Update the desktop widget background to use the same look as breeze.
* Add `settextcolor.py` to change the panel/widget/titlebar text color.
* Fix `resettitlebarcolor.py` not working for color schemes installed in the home directory (`~/.local/share/color-scheme/`. It previously only worked for color schemes in the root directory (`/usr/share/color-scheme/`). This fix also scans all color schemes when the color scheme filename is not the typical `{ColorSchemeName}.colors` (Eg: "Breeze Solarized Light" uses "BreezeSolarizedLight.colors").
* Add `resettodefaults.py` script to revert all changes.

v12 - July 26 2018 2 years ago

* Add settitlebarcolor.py and resettitlebarcolor.py to easily reset the titlebar color. v3 of the widget has buttons that will run these scripts.

v11 - June 24 2018 2 years ago

* Remove the opache and transparent folders which don't appear to do anything (they aren't overriding breeze).
* Add new templates + scripts to set the panel popups/dialog opacity, and the desktop widget opacity. The new scripts are setdialogopacity.py and setwidgetopacity.py. Both work the same as setpanelopacity.py.

v10 - May 29 2018 2 years ago

* Follow color scheme when compositor is off. Gets rid of white outline when compositor is off.
* Add breeze's widgets/tabbar.svg, as Plasma doesn't allow it to "inherit" this svg. This fixes/adds the "popup is open" blue line.
* Add alternative tasks.svg where the line is on the outside/edge of the screen line Windows 10. Use the config widget, or the settasksvg.py script, to change to it.
* "Unzip" the svgz into svg, and cleanup the xml.

v9 - February 20 2017 3 years ago

* Fix panel opacity script so it can be run anywhere.

v8 - January 21 2017 4 years ago

* Add a script to set the panel opacity.

v7 4 years ago

* Fix the minimized tasks svg (showed nothing instead of looking like a "normal" task)
* Use a hardcoded #f67400 orange for highlighted tasks instead of the NeutralText color from the color scheme.

v6 4 years ago

* Use the Breeze 5.8 tasks.svg (thinner line), but with minimized tasks looking the same as a normal task.

v5 4 years ago

* Add script to change the color.

4 years ago

v3 - June 16 2016

* Theme progressbar in tasks.

v2 - June 15 2016

* Got rid of the white line at the top of the panel
* Got rid of the pink spot in the pager