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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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

No, I was wrong :( Plasma theme update didn't work for me. After updating it from the KDE settings dialog, it simply reverts back to the older Helium version, that's why shadows were smaller :)

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

Just came to mind... in the latest Qt5 it is actually possible to render 'real' shadows directly. No fakery required.
This is a bit insane but you could implement it in KDE quite soon.

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

And if what I already didn't make you dizzy ;') here is another thing - your choices of light values on the transparent surfaces don't take into account the fact that one should see the shadow through them.
Values would be a bit higher since those surface are glass-like and partly reflective and would pick up light that's shining on them/ environment but it would definitely be clear that you can see their own shadows through them. Currently that would result in much darker panel colors.

(so that would be one more reason for much brighter/softer shadows ;.)

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

//typo
*already said

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

A little bit more detailed Changelog would be great.

It would make it simpler to refer to when submitting questions/suggestions.

Thanks for the great work!

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

I have a problem after 4.10 update, there is no transparency in the thumbnailer/box app switcher.

I like the theme, great work!

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mcder
8 years ago

I am currently working on version 3.1.0 so have a little patience.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115920115946572175775/posts/E3wSzFN4MBN

I hope to be finished this month

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JenyaYQ
8 years ago

Thank you!

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zwinkmann
8 years ago

Great Work Man.

where can I find your current wallpaper?? can u submit a link??

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saudakar
8 years ago

Hola buen dia!!
¿Como puedo instalar este tema?
Utilizo OpenSuse 12.2 con KDE 4.8x, pero no encuentro una opcion que me permita instalarlo, ¿Que puedo hacer?

Gracias!

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DannyVanDerZande
8 years ago

Installing the theme goes well but when I apply it it just doesn't look anything like your screenshots..
It looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/eXNJC.jpg

Am I doing something wrong? :(

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mcder
8 years ago

have enabled the effect of kwin?

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DannyVanDerZande
8 years ago

How do I do that?

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DannyVanDerZande
8 years ago

I googled it, they are activated at system startup

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DannyVanDerZande
8 years ago

I rebooted my pc, still didn't work.. than I just messed around and most of it seems to be working nog, except for the transparent "start-menu" background..

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mcder
8 years ago

restarted as plasma-desktop and to kwin??

plasma-desktop:

killall plasma-desktop && plasma-desktop

kwin:

killall kwin && kwin

and if the problem still persists you may not have desktop effects working

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DannyVanDerZande
8 years ago

The probleem seems to be opengl. Every reboot it seems to crash somehow. Switched to xrender now for a test and the theme seems to be acting how I want it to act now.

Does changing to Xrender not give me other errors as far as you know?

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jacopeta
8 years ago

Hi. there is no bar but only % for audio and brightness control OSD that appear when i press fn + control keys. :)

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mcder
8 years ago

screenshot please

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jacopeta
8 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/j3r8n.jpg

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

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mcder
8 years ago

which version of kde are using?

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jacopeta
8 years ago

kubuntu 12.04.1 - kde 4.8.4

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mcder
8 years ago

I apologize but the theme version 3 does not support KDE versions below 4.9 (plasma changed several elements in this version)

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gravy
8 years ago

Hey, the lancelot text for me is really light to a white background. I was wondering if it could be darkenened some?

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

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mcder
8 years ago

to make this change is necessary to have several requests to make it effective.

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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