Helium

Helium Original

Plasma Themes helium kde plasma plasma-shell

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/mcder3/Helium-Plasma-Theme

Available as/for: Plasma 5

Description:

A translucent theme for Plasma 5

Un tema translúcido para Plasma 5

I hope you like it :-)

Antü Icons

Official wallpapers:

Helium Wallpaper V1
Helium Wallpaper V2

If you like my work, please press the "Pling me" button to make a donation or you can do it directly to my PayPal account

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

I have decided to release the SVG files in a community license

read this before forking my work:

If you use my work to create forks. please try to donate some money, since it takes me a lot of time and effort to create and discover new techniques to improve themes for Plasmashell.

I will be very grateful if you do :-)

Last changelog:

11.0.0 9 days ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.21

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grassmonk
5 years ago

This is my favorite Plasma theme and I'm so glad it's finally updated for Plasma 5. I have just one small issue: there's no indicator in the taskbar for minimized windows. I'm using the icons-only task manager with launchers always shown for some tasks, so I have no way of knowing if a window is minimized or if the application is not running.

Thanks again for the work on this theme!

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mcder
5 years ago

solved the problem ;-)

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grassmonk
5 years ago

Thanks, it looks great! I'm just trying to figure out Inkscape now to change my local copy's icon padding to be similar to Breeze.

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mcder
5 years ago

that is the element you want to change?

screenshot please

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grassmonk
5 years ago

I'm trying to get the icons in the task manager to be the same size as when using the Breeze theme. (I like the space between the icons, just trying to update the padding inside.)

Top is Breeze, bottom is Helium:
http://i.imgur.com/HaYviB7.png

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mcder
5 years ago

I think it looks better with biggest icons

before:

http://i.imgur.com/Uy9Moqh.png

after:

http://i.imgur.com/DXi1Vr3.png

It will be available soon the new update.

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grassmonk
5 years ago

I think the new screenshot looks great. Thanks for the update.

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mcder
5 years ago

I think I left too wide edges.

http://i.imgur.com/tn2yRba.jpg

I think I can reduce 2px to the edge, if you try to reduce even more, would have to reduce the curve of the corners.

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evgom
5 years ago

Where are the last version compatible with plasma 4, I mean Helium 5.0?

Can you upload it, please?

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converted
5 years ago

This theme is *exactly* what I've been looking for,but unable to achieve, in Plasma 5.

Thanks very much for continuing to maintain this!

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Marcus87
5 years ago

could you please fix. Thx !

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chamfay
6 years ago

Hi,
Thanks for the amazing theme.

I saw some glitches.

Please see: http://im46.gulfup.com/2qGEa9.png

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KennyMInigun
7 years ago

There's annoying bug when you can't close plasma notifications when using "Helium" theme. However everything's fine with default "Air" theme. Is it worth to create a bug report on KDE bug-tracker or is it bug of Helium theme?

Please see this video for details: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42072159/plasma-bug.mkv

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mcder
7 years ago

I'll take it into account (not if you tried with another theme). but for the moment there will be a new version of Helium until 2014

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KennyMInigun
7 years ago

I wasn't able to reproduce this on "Slim Glow" theme

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mcder
7 years ago

At the moment I'm working on the artwork for the distro KaOS. Helium so the theme will be paused for a while (later this year or early 2014)

I apologize for the neglect of the theme.

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ovidiub13
7 years ago

There are missing icons for the windows title bar. Buttons for keep above and keep below.

Also, no feedback that the keep on all screens button is pressed or not.

Any way I could help you with this?

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oshunluvr
7 years ago

Love the theme. I installed Helium-One via System Settings using Kubuntu 13.04.

One problem: Lancelot. The menu bar that contains "Lock Screen" "Leave" "Switch User" and the Lancelot config Chalice icon isn't themed so that one small part looks like the "Oxygen" theme - which is dark and hard to read. I can provide a screenshot if it's needed.

It would be great if this was fixed in your up-coming new version.

Thanks for the cool theme!

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sumski
8 years ago

you are shipping:
a) lancelot/.theme.config.kate-swp
b) svg with executable bits set
(notice those when tried to package latest version for openSUSE)
Thanks for the great theme btw! :-)

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

Thank you for your great work!

I find the shadows in the preview 4 far too strong. I don't mind the size but they definitely could be softer or more transparent.

So assuming that the light in a UI should make sense, which is questionable, here is my attempt at reasoning this out.

In your current design shadows end with a sharp round edge on -all- corners, which makes little sense light-wise, unless you imagine many strong point-lights hovering over every UI element.
The only case with equally sized sharp shadows would be if the strong imaginary light source were very far away but in this case the shadow size would be close to zero because the viewer and the far away light source are aligned.
(+ as far as I know KDE widgets don't support shadow offset, so they have to be aligned)

If it's just one strong light source close and directly behind, you would see differently sized shadows, which is impossible to do right now in KDE.

So the only 'reasonable' way to do this is to assume having a diffuse light source/s somewhere close to the display. In this setting you would see nice soft shadows, thus not only hiding the fact that they should have different sizes but also the number of lights becomes more or less irrelevant.

PS This is probably what went on in some of the wondrous minds sitting in the Cupertino Spaceship and pondering the same questions. ...or not.

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mcder
8 years ago

I think you have given me an idea XD

thank you very much for your comment

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

It's a bit crazy, I know... should've been more concise.

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mcder
8 years ago

if you want you can try this development version and give your opinion

http://koresource.blogspot.com/2013/03/helium-410-milestone-1.html

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

Thank you for the effort!
If that's the same version you shared on Google+, then I've already tried it. It's definitely better but the shadows are still too prominent in my opinion.

I hope you'll find a good looking and sensible solution. Good luck!

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

I noticed that you reduced shadow size in the recent update but I still think having a version with larger soft shadows would be worth testing.

One could achieve the same 'soft' effect even with sharp shadows by making them more transparent (as if they were under indirect light)

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11.0.0 9 days ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.21

10.2.1 2 months ago

* Fix notification.svg

10.2.0 5 months ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.20

10.1.1 6 months ago

* Update colors
* Notifications.svg element has been redesigned
* Cosmetic changes to some items

10.1.0 10 months ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.19
* The design of some icons has been updated
* Correction of errors in some elements

10.0.1 1 year ago

* Fixed some cosmetic bugs

10.0.0 1 year ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.18
* Changes in some elements

9.13.2 1 year ago

* The notification icon has been modified
* Add media-mount icon

9.13 1 year ago

* The notification icon has been modified
* The drive icon has been modified

9.12 1 year ago

* Add tools icons
* Icons have been updated for input
* The color has been changed to some elements
* Minor changes

9.11 1 year ago

* Cosmetic changes and redefine a couple of icons

9.10 1 year ago

* A great change.

9.2.0 1 year ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.16
* Progressive renewal of icons
* The busywidget element has been reviewed

9.1.0 2 years ago

* The tasks have been redesigned
* More icons have been added in size 16x16
* Some icons have been redesigned

9.0.1 2 years ago

* Initial plasma support 5.15
* Added 16x16 icons for those who use a panel less than 22 px

NOTE: There is a small error in the application launcher, in the course of the days I will try to solve it.

8.7.1 2 years ago

* Fixed the error of media.svg which did not change color when in the lock screen.

8.7.0 2 years ago

* The design of multiple icons have been updated
* New icon for menu launchers designed by Fabian Alexis (https://www.opendesktop.org/member/473883/)
* Initial support for Plasma 5.14

8.6.3 2 years ago

* Minor changes in some icons

8.6.2 2 years ago

* Added 16x16 icons for multimedia controls

8.6.1 2 years ago

* There will only be one version, the SVG in CC BY-SA

8.6.0 2 years ago

* Most elements have been passed to the PNG format
* Correction in multiple icons
* Still missing items such as the clock, which will be added in the next few weeks

8.5.1 2 years ago

* The margins of the top panel have been modified
* Some colors have been changed in different elements
* Some elements are less opaque, but do not affect the visibility of them
* Thinner progress bar

8.5.0 2 years ago

* New icon for KDE Connect
* Some elements of the widgets folder have been redesigned
* New icon for menu launchers designed by Fabian Alexis (https://www.opendesktop.org/member/473883/)
* New design for analog clock
* The previous tasks.svgz is used again but with improvements
* Some base colors of the theme have been changed

8.4.0 2 years ago

* It has been updated tasks.svgz
* The panel-background.svgz has been edited
* Minor changes

8.3.2 2 years ago

* The design of lineedit.svgz has been changed so that it can be visible on the lockscreen in Plasma 5.13

8.3.1 2 years ago

* Left side panel has been modified to have a dark effect for those who like unity style
* Bug fix

8.3.0 2 years ago

* Initial support for Plasma 5.13
* New icons in different sections
* Bug fix

8.2.2 2 years ago

* The wifi icon has been redesigned

8.2.1 2 years ago

* a minor change in start.svgz
* license change.

8.2.0 2 years ago

* An icon for amarok has been added
* The start.svgz icon has been modified
* The configure.svgz icon has been modified
* minor changes

8.1.0 3 years ago

* Minimal change in design
* error correction

8.0.0 3 years ago

* Update for the 8 years in opendesktop
* Support for Plasma 5.12.x
* License change

5 years ago

(7.2.0)
* update and fix icons folder
* update glowbar.svgz

(7.1.2)
* update tasks.svgz (bugfix)
* update viewitem.svgz
* update arrows.svgz

(7.1.1)
* update tasks.svgz
* update clock.svgz

(7.1.0)
* update color-schemes
* update analog_meter.svgz
* update clock.svgz
* update busywidget.svgz

(7.0.0)
* It is designed most elements

(6.1.0)
* They have been redesigned several icons for system tray
* minor fixes

(6.0.2)
* fix pager.svgz

(6.0.1)
* fix colors

(6.0.0)
* Plasma 5.3.x support

(5.0.0)
* KDE 4.13 support
* updated icons in system tray
* effect of softer shadow in the background of the elements

(4.1.0)
* has improved the design of the shadows on the elements

(4.0.0)
* KDE 4.10 support
* review and redesign of different elements

(2.0.3)[KDE 4.8.x][Helium One]
* bug fixes and updates

(3.0.3)
* fix widgets/slider.svgz

(3.0.2)
* update icons/korgac.svg

(3.0.1)
* add widgets/timer.svgz

(3.0.0)
* compatible with kde 4.9
* various changes in the theme

(2.0.2)
* add icons/kalarm.svgz

(2.0.1)
* add widgets/activities.svgz
* minors bugfix

(2.0)
* has been added, modified, edited and re-designed elements of the theme

* leave missing elements to the lancelot menu (with a little patience please)

* it has changed the license of the theme

(1.1.0)
* have been modified and redesigned several elements

(1.0.3)
* is modified the design of the buttons

more screenshot: http://koresource.blogspot.com/2012/03/helium-one-103.html

(22/03/12)
* the file has been uploaded to Dropbox

(1.0.2)
* has edited the effect of focus on the element lineedit.svgz

* he added a shadow effect to the elements button.svgz, actionbutton.svgz and slider.svgz

* element has been added checkmarks.svgz

more screenshot + info

http://koresource.blogspot.com/2012/02/helium-102.html

(1.0.1.3)
* has edited the file "colors"

(1.0.1.2)
* add akonadi icon

(1.0.1.1)
* edit bangarang icon

(1.0.1)
* has removed the focus effect on some elements

* icons have been added korgac and bangarang to the system tray

* Helium now has 30 different icons for system tray

* have been redesigned following icons to the system tray:

- amarok
- network (design based on the network icon for GNOME 3)

* have been edit following icons:

- choqok
- kopete

(1.0)
* has been re-designed the 70% - 80% of the elements of the theme

* compatible with kde 4.8

* more screenshot: http://koresource.blogspot.com/2012/01/helium-one-10-comenzando-otra-nueva.html