I know this video is old, but using "Application Title" for showing the app name in the panel is better IMO, It will automatically adjust the width of the widget so that the whole name is shown instead of always being a fixed width and cutting off the name if it is longer than the fixed width of the widget.
@@MyurrDurr I don't recommend Active Window Control anymore 'cause it's outdated. You can download Window Title, Window Buttons and Window Appmenu widgets from psifidotos who's Latte Dock's creator. It's really good and the effects are the same.
@@oldlonecoder5843 if you think KDE is too much customizable, please go away (to some other DE)... or just don't enter the settings menu and ignore those options. (I have been through KDE3.5, KDE4 and KDE5 ... and the loss of customization in KDE4 was the worst time ever, I even did use forked KDE3.5 for some time instead of regular KDE4 ... so if voices like this ever get to the ears of KDE devs and they will start to remove the options, I'll be not happy)
@@ped7g I dont use KDE4 but I love KDE before it was very sluggy. I use KDE from 2.0 in Mandrake Linux. After I try Gnome in Red Hat 9 Bamboo I switched to Gnome until now I am back to KDE.
this has the potential to be better than gnome if someone makes an activities overview plasmoid because of its customization and speed the only thing its missing is gestures
Probably one of the best , slow, so you can understand videos I've seen regarding KDE period. Thank you, and I agree with whoever said I wish all KDE customization videos were made by you! Outstanding job buddy
Now that's a really well made tutorial. Even if the perticular style chioses aren't to your liking, it's packed with helpful tips and "how to's". Thank you!
I normally don't apply too many customizations to KDE, but after watching this video, I feel inspired to just jump in and go for it! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this - your KDE desktop looks so awesome!!!
I've been a strictly GTK2 (xfce) and GTK3 (gnome/pantheon) guy throughout my ENTIRETY of using Linux (which is four years strong) and I've never been able to tolerate plasma. I've tried twice and just couldn't customize it to my liking. You sir, just convinced me to distro hop yet once again in the very near future.
@@Booming-letsplays Unfortunately until you hit a bug that's been around for months to years and it drives you the brink of insanity. I've been using plasma for two years now, and i'm very tempted to go back to cinnamon or xfce due to a number of issues. I prefer QT apps over GTK CSD-oriented ones, but i really don't like having things break constantly.
Coming back to.this video, this is what made me drop GNOME for good. KDE Plasma has so much customization without the need for addons and ANYTHING can be changed, and I didn't even know about it until this video. Thank you for making this video.
I accidentally installed KDE manjaro once and immediately went back to gnome but ... this is honestly making me want to give it another run ... I just love how you don’t need to download anything from a fandom website to get your themes etc. that’s one of the things that makes Linux so much more safe feeling ... also it just looks great and I love KDE’s desktop widgets.
a really huge thanks to you, dude! i was watching this video while i was customizing my Arch Linux KDE, it took 2 days) there is really no guides better than your you helped me a lot, thanks! ❤️
hope you enjoyed the video guys and Lol ! I tried my best to make this video shorter but I failed XD , next time I will record the voiceover then I will edit the video !
@@binbashchannel you should use 3 widgets from Psifidotos (at the KDE store) which are very actively maintained and using more up-to-date APIs. These are: 1) Window Title Applet 2) Window Buttons Applet 3) Window AppMenu Applet I use Latte are both my dock and top panel. Latte has an option inside the Layouts configs to allow the removal of title bars when the window is maximized. Also, theming the buttons is much easier with these applets. One question, though. How did you enable the global menu on GTK apps? Enjoy!
I'm having so much fun watching and pausing your video so I can customize my Kubuntu as you explain how to do so. I love Linux even more every time I learn how to operate in it. I have a Windows PC, and late 2012 mac mini with macOS. But the more I learn about Linux the more I love it as an operating system, and even more than Windows or macOS. I enjoy Windows and macOS but Kubuntu is free and has "magic" to me as new fresh OS.
Bloody brilliant, I've never been a fan of KDE and I've been rocking Pantheon with a very macOs style as well, but the global menu and minimised title bar is something I now need lol. Not a fan of dark themes myself, but yours is awesome, congrats.
@@binbashchannel lol, that username is awesome! Somehow I hesitated for a split second when I clicked the link on _View Reply from #!/bin/bash_ I find that even more entertaining than your video (great video, btw)
I remember when I saw this video 2 years ago and this is what made me drop Windows over to Linux. Customizability. As someone who used to tweak Windows XP and 7 a lot, I got put out by Windows 10 and the removal of (good) 3rd party custom themes; and even with a custom theme you still needed a lot of extra 3rd party software to tweak every single thing. When I saw this video and saw that you can just right click and change stuff in KDE, I basically fell in love. Never looked back to Windows since.
Konsole's title bar is only blurry (12:39) thanks to the option "Match Title Bar's and Window's color" (7:40) in the Sierra Breeze window decorations. Kind of a shame the default Breeze window decorations don't offer this. :)
I always love the KDE PLASMA desktop environment. Tons of awesome features, yet with clicks of the buttons customisations are made simple and self-explanationery.
Thanks for putting up the video. I really enjoyed going through it. The part about Global Menu was good. And the complementing Active Window Control is awesome. I didn't know KDE had this feature. Very nice.
110% you should.. I did just that and am now a full-time Linux user.. Kubuntu is my choice... been computing since GEOS on the C64 in 1988 as a kid and on MS products since DOS on the XT to windows 3.0 / 3.1 on the 286 in the early 90s... This video made me give Linux and KDE another go and I finally haven't touched windows in weeks apart from when I am forced too at work.. Kubuntu 19.10 is my recommendation
Very interesting. I normally just dive right in and run jobs on my "boxes"... KDE PLASMA certainly does look pretty and clean... have been meaning to try it for quite a while...
That's my weapon of choice on my workstation and laptop, couldn't be happier. The combination of Arch philosophy and community with the flexibility of KDE is the perfect match for me. And it isn't too resource heavy; I run two Activities each with two virtual desktops full of Chromium tabs, and on top of that I was running a virtual Windows domain with two servers and two clients simultaneously, all on a mediocre i5 and 8GB of RAM (plus SWAP of course), and KDE remained butter smooth and responsive.
@@xudongw I could do most of what I wanted of it, but thanks. I heard KDE Neon is just not as stable as Kubuntu, and I'm never going to switch to Arch or any distro like that.
@@GergiH Manjaro kde is nice and doesn't need much fiddling. But yeah, kubuntu is fine as well. But still, the best distro to utilize kde was Linux Mint imo. A shame that they're gonna discontinue future support.
@@aleisley5797 Every time I tried any other distro than anything Debian/Ubuntu based I had random issues which I just couldn't resolve, not even after googling for a day. I just don't like to edit random config files around the system hoping for some miracle and that I don't break anything else with it. Thus why I'm with Kubuntu.
This is a workaround for anyone being annoyed that you cannot double click anywhere in the top bar to unmaximize windows. (which is a result of Active Window Control's global menu not working) Simpy use another AWC instead of a spacer between the global menu and whatever comes to the right. For this instance, disable the application icon, name and buttons. Also, enable the fill width option.
Amazing! More than just demonstrate how you made it your own, this is a glimpse into how configurable KDE is (so no, I don't mind the length of the video 😅 Good choice of music, by the way). I really want Kubuntu now, but in the meantime I can get Qt and KDE apps with Lubuntu on a decade-old netbook XD
This is awesome! One thing. I like to have the clock/calendar in the centre. When I have tried this in the past along with a global menu and trying to set two spacers either side of the clock everything's gonna screwy. The clock would dynamically shift depending on the global menu even though there was plenty of space. If you or anyone could think up a way around this I'd be a lot more likely to use KDE. Until then, it's Gnome for me. It's closest to how I like my desktop out of the box.
Classic non-transparent windows 95 GUI is the best, IMHO. I use default Breeze light theme as it is clean and looks nice and opaque theme for menus. I love the way KDE can be customised into anything I like.
Seriously. KDE really needs to reign in their features and customization. The biggest weakness of KDE is that we have to do a bunch of tweaking to get it this way.
Awesome tutorial! Very much appreciated. At 0:44 you are talking about a video to make GTK and electron apps work with the application menu bar panel. Where can i find that video? And do you have an alternative for the active window control widget? It seems to be abandoned. Thanks!
Thanks. The customize is even more necessary on Crostini (the Chromebook linux)! But your work is invaluable and very clever. (not sure if I can take the music background, tho. I see why Beethoven went mad.)
I know it's hard to admit... but the default interface of KDE (similar to Windows) is the best for productivity. People tend to search for something different and esclusive, but it's always for the aesthetics.
can you make ?? top right corner right click show desktop left click close window top left corner right click show workspace left click application menu
It's Plasma, of course you can. (At least you can get some of it.) You'll need to look in System Settings -> Desktop Behavior -> Screen Edges (tab). You'll find all the options for "hot corners" there.
I did this simple vídeo to show you. ruclips.net/video/cg1vrSeweJk/видео.html I used the Materia theme and Papirus icons. The two panels are Latte, the menu is Simple Menu from the KDE Store, and I installed the applet-window-title and the applet-window-buttons from github.com/psifidotos/ to merge the windows titles bars to the top panel. I didn't find themes to get something like the Ubuntu 19.04 look yet. I know there are these icons: www.opendesktop.org/p/1238162/, but I've not tried them yet. I'm thinking about making a tutorial, but I'm quite busy with other projects I'm working on. If you have any questions, just ask. :)
Is there a way to save all your setting changes into a theme? This way you could switch (and share) when every you felt like something different. Lots of themes could be made, various MacOS/Apple, Windows, OS/2, BEOS, and anything imaginal could be save as a theme and shared with everyone.
I am sure there is a way , since there is already a lot of kde Look and Feels wich are basically a bunch of kde themes, icons , color schemes ...etc... but I haven't tried making a one myself.
@@ShadowManceri In windows you to do nearly everything you can use the gui. On most linux distros if you want to do some more advanced stuff, and sometimes even install simple app you need to use commands. Not everyone knows what commands to use. In windows you can do it only click things.
@@kratekgames7610 *"In windows you to do nearly everything you can use the gui."* Mm-h, just like in Linux. Only difference that in Linux you are not limited to GUI. You don't need to use a single command ever. But those commands often are way faster and easier to use than navigating thru GUI's, especially if we want to automate some task or repeat it many times. Also Windows GUI system is horrible, it is super complicated. Like changing IP takes 10 clicks thru different looking menus and windows while in Linux it's 3 clicks in single window. *"On most linux distros if you want to do some more advanced stuff, and sometimes even install simple app you need to use commands."* Total bullshit. You have GUI to any package manager you can think of. You search the app and click install, done. In Windows you need to go manually browse google, click and click in websites, find the download and then in installer click all kind of options and pick this and that and decline spyware etc. It takes minutes in Windows compared to seconds in Linux. But if you want to compile something manually, then that might require opening a shell as its just the most easiest way to do it. Same would be true with Windows. Some package managers also have ability to automatically compile for you, you just click install and done. You don't have that in Windows whatsoever. *"Not everyone knows what commands to use. In windows you can do it only click things."* And they don't need to. You can just use the GUI. I don't remember the last time I *had* to use shell for anything. But I prefer shell for many things because it is just faster and easier to do certain tasks. Like for example if I need to resize 1000 pictures in a directory I can just do command in shell: "mogrify -resize 50% " (star at the end that youtube doesn't like to show) and I'm done. It takes me like 3 seconds to write that command. In same time you maybe managed to open the app to do it. Like sure I could choose to spend 10 minutes to do it in app thru GUI. But I much prefer just to use the command. Sometimes if I need something super special operation I might spend that 10 minutes in GUI rather than reading the manual for command. But that's the beauty of it, I can *choose* how to do it given the task of what I want to accomplished. For example if that 10 minute operation would be something I need to do every day, I would make the command for it. Once I figured the options I don't need to worry about it anymore. I just run it and it takes 1 second compared to 10 minutes every day.
@@ShadowManceri Ok, I completely agree with you. But still some software is not available on linux. (I know it is possible to emulate things, but you loose performance. Sometimes not very much but still.)
@@kratekgames7610 Not all software and games are usable in Linux. But that also is somewhat attitude problem. Like you expect to get Big Mac from Burger King, even tho you could just order a whopper that is basically the same stuff. Or pick from many other alternatives. Might even find something better (personally I prefer whopper over Big Mac anyway). For any given tasks there usually is plenty of options. There can be some marginal apps like Adobe's family that you can't get in Linux. And one of the apps might do something no other app does. However that is very marginal use case. 99% of people don't truly need any of those features. Like editing some camera photos in photoshop to post in facebook. If you pay for photoshop to get that done, you have been ripped off. In professional setting I totally get that workstation might be Windows or Mac based because of some X app only works there, or person knows that and it just isn't ideal to make any changes. That's fine. But we are again talking about edge cases. And corporate setting is very different deal anyway. You are not using best, you are using whatever someone with poor knowledge picked 10 years ago based on what he saw his nephew using. (Yes, that's a joke, but awful close to truth.) That said, if you only need say Adobe family apps, then using virtual machine is fine solution. There are a lot benefits to it as well. For example you get snapshotting so in case windows decides to run update while you are middle of making stuff, you can just recover from that in couple seconds rather than getting blocked for days. You also reduce any attack vector to the system by limiting how far MS spyware reaches. They can't spy you as much because they really have nothing going. And you limit access to your actual system so that there is no Candy Crush saga installed by force or some Xbox nonsense. Wine now days also is very good, I mean very good. It's not emulation and neither is virtual machines. As long the CPU architecture is same, that is is then you are working with native performance or at least very close to it. This is because the app actually runs with same instructions so no emulation is required. Unlike in console emulators where your PC doesn't have the console hardware so it needs to be emulated. In case of Wine you might even get better performance, funny enough, as less useless crap is running at the background. Virtual machine still executes all of it so no performance boost is possible. But there really isn't real performance loss either. As long you just have memory for it. In seamless mode you don't even notice that you are running the app in virtual machine. It behaves like native app excluding the looks as it still uses windows themes etc. Only real problem you might face is with audio and accelerated graphics. (Only really problem in games.) Games that I play work just fine with Wine (using proton). And it's possible to use VM for that too tho gets bit tricky without second GPU. I'm not big gamer so my take on this is fairly limited. But last couple years I have not encountered a game that doesn't work. To be fair only bigger title I tried was Borderlands 3. But games like League of Legends won't work as they actively prevent Linux users from running it. They call it cheating. So I guess Linux gives you unfair advantage.
I remember making some customizations in KDE a few months back and it messed up certain things. I changed cursor styles and sizes, but it didn't change them throughout the system. I also hate that fact that when you change wallpaper, KDE doesn't seem to grasp it when you have multiple monitors.
Followed it step by step the final result is incredible as its too old some widgets are removed as the app dashboard use plasma launchpad instead and also the widget style menu is moved to applications style everything else works great tut thx. (:
I use KDE Neon on my work laptop and people comment asking what its running, I spent a good hour configuring KDE to how I like it and it really does pay off because it's just so nice and personalized.
When you show how to make your terminal transparent at 12:29 you would think I would see your desktop through the transparency, but i can see MY wallpaper through the video, through my firefox browser and onto my desktop. I have tried moving the browser window around while playing and sure enough my wallpaper moves with it. When I pause the video it solidifies into a solid dark color. Just wondering if anyone else is having this happen. I'm on Pop!_OS without any ricing.
Anyone who has done this (including OP), how much heavier does the system get after applying all these tweaks? Some of them are just batch color changes and I suspect they aren't really changing system resource utilization, however, the dock and the animations probably are? I like the aesthetics but do they come at a cost? Thanks in advance! :)
How to open an application with leftclick - or even better - double-leftclick - from the system tray? (Like I would press Open Appname from context menu, without opening context menu.) Its current behavior is opening the context menu, same like right click. (Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma 5.18.5 x86_64, currently all @ newest stable version )
materia doesnt exist anymore tho. Only materia kde and materia manjaro themes which are weird af. Still great look tho :P Just finished installing arch uefi on my laptop with kde plasma also. I do get some weird bugs tho, like for example the battery indicator in the toolbar doesnt display the battery percentage correctly sometimes, konsole with command acpi -b gives correct battery status tho, same goes for upower. been looking online and it seems its a well known problem with kde. whenever it happens, a quick terminate plasmashell and restart seems to do the trick for me until i shutdown and restart system again. this has really been my only unfixable problem in kde so far thank god. The customization is rlly out of this world. Been a long time since i last used a linux distro, but the fact that i saw all the oldskool compiz effects in this video made me rlly want to try out kde. last linux i used was ubuntu 9.04 lmao
I know this video is old, but using "Application Title" for showing the app name in the panel is better IMO, It will automatically adjust the width of the widget so that the whole name is shown instead of always being a fixed width and cutting off the name if it is longer than the fixed width of the widget.
The dock is not availble on BackBox
But there's no window control on Application Title.
@@saf9310 You can do it all from the "get new widget" button for the panel.
You need "application title" and "active window control"
@@MyurrDurr I don't recommend Active Window Control anymore 'cause it's outdated. You can download Window Title, Window Buttons and Window Appmenu widgets from psifidotos who's Latte Dock's creator. It's really good and the effects are the same.
@@thiagomota5849 Ahh, thanks for those suggestions! Yeah, Active window control is janky :/
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:16 - Top Panel
01:56 - Latte Dock
03:46 - Theming
09:39 - Desktop Effects
10:54 - The Wallpaper
11:49 - The Terminal Profile
12:49 - Active Window Control
Fucking Legend!
If you can hack the video description, that would be great!
I forgot how insanely customizable Plasma was through their GUIs. Awesome!
@@oldlonecoder5843 if you think KDE is too much customizable, please go away (to some other DE)... or just don't enter the settings menu and ignore those options.
(I have been through KDE3.5, KDE4 and KDE5 ... and the loss of customization in KDE4 was the worst time ever, I even did use forked KDE3.5 for some time instead of regular KDE4 ... so if voices like this ever get to the ears of KDE devs and they will start to remove the options, I'll be not happy)
@@ped7g I dont use KDE4 but I love KDE before it was very sluggy. I use KDE from 2.0 in Mandrake Linux. After I try Gnome in Red Hat 9 Bamboo I switched to Gnome until now I am back to KDE.
this has the potential to be better than gnome if someone makes an activities overview plasmoid because of its customization and speed the only thing its missing is gestures
Probably one of the best , slow, so you can understand videos I've seen regarding KDE period. Thank you, and I agree with whoever said I wish all KDE customization videos were made by you! Outstanding job buddy
Now that's a really well made tutorial. Even if the perticular style chioses aren't to your liking, it's packed with helpful tips and "how to's".
Thank you!
I normally don't apply too many customizations to KDE, but after watching this video, I feel inspired to just jump in and go for it! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this - your KDE desktop looks so awesome!!!
I've been a strictly GTK2 (xfce) and GTK3 (gnome/pantheon) guy throughout my ENTIRETY of using Linux (which is four years strong) and I've never been able to tolerate plasma. I've tried twice and just couldn't customize it to my liking. You sir, just convinced me to distro hop yet once again in the very near future.
you are aware that you can just install a DE on your distro right?
That was what I thought as well in November last year. Thats when I went to KDE. Still happy. KDE can be the better GNOME
@@Booming-letsplays Unfortunately until you hit a bug that's been around for months to years and it drives you the brink of insanity. I've been using plasma for two years now, and i'm very tempted to go back to cinnamon or xfce due to a number of issues. I prefer QT apps over GTK CSD-oriented ones, but i really don't like having things break constantly.
Jonathan Realman I've heard that doing that can cause issues
@SapphFire I tried this with no issues, but I don't like to have 2 different text editors, configuration panels etc in the same application menu.
Coming back to.this video, this is what made me drop GNOME for good. KDE Plasma has so much customization without the need for addons and ANYTHING can be changed, and I didn't even know about it until this video.
Thank you for making this video.
I accidentally installed KDE manjaro once and immediately went back to gnome but ... this is honestly making me want to give it another run ... I just love how you don’t need to download anything from a fandom website to get your themes etc. that’s one of the things that makes Linux so much more safe feeling ... also it just looks great and I love KDE’s desktop widgets.
There's a variant of La Capitaine made for better integration with KDE, though. I think it's called La Capitaine Breeze.
This is why I love KDE. You can configure the hell out of it! There's quite litterally nothing you can't do.
KDE makes Linux addictive.
I wish every Linux video on the internet was made by you.
a really huge thanks to you, dude!
i was watching this video while i was customizing my Arch Linux KDE, it took 2 days)
there is really no guides better than your
you helped me a lot, thanks! ❤️
You're welcome
hope you enjoyed the video guys and
Lol ! I tried my best to make this video shorter but I failed XD , next time I will record the voiceover then I will edit the video !
Which distro are you using?
@@raughboy188 arch in this video but now I use kde neon
@@binbashchannel you should use 3 widgets from Psifidotos (at the KDE store) which are very actively maintained and using more up-to-date APIs. These are:
1) Window Title Applet
2) Window Buttons Applet
3) Window AppMenu Applet
I use Latte are both my dock and top panel. Latte has an option inside the Layouts configs to allow the removal of title bars when the window is maximized.
Also, theming the buttons is much easier with these applets.
One question, though. How did you enable the global menu on GTK apps?
Enjoy!
Hi mate, I'm using your config on my desktop, but I have the same question, how did you enable global menu on gtk aps
Darren Yorston then maybe install QtQuick version 2.7
And install these 3 always as the GitHub page instructs.
I'm having so much fun watching and pausing your video so I can customize my Kubuntu as you explain how to do so. I love Linux even more every time I learn how to operate in it. I have a Windows PC, and late 2012 mac mini with macOS. But the more I learn about Linux the more I love it as an operating system, and even more than Windows or macOS. I enjoy Windows and macOS but Kubuntu is free and has "magic" to me as new fresh OS.
That's the same way I felt when I first tried Linux
Same for me. Used Gnome till now but i want moooore customization
Bloody brilliant, I've never been a fan of KDE and I've been rocking Pantheon with a very macOs style as well, but the global menu and minimised title bar is something I now need lol. Not a fan of dark themes myself, but yours is awesome, congrats.
You can't possibly be using Arch Linux, you didn't end your sentence with - I use Arch, btw.
Haha , Well that screenfetch at the end is the same as saying it :)
@@binbashchannel lol, that username is awesome! Somehow I hesitated for a split second when I clicked the link on _View Reply from #!/bin/bash_
I find that even more entertaining than your video (great video, btw)
I remember when I saw this video 2 years ago and this is what made me drop Windows over to Linux. Customizability.
As someone who used to tweak Windows XP and 7 a lot, I got put out by Windows 10 and the removal of (good) 3rd party custom themes; and even with a custom theme you still needed a lot of extra 3rd party software to tweak every single thing.
When I saw this video and saw that you can just right click and change stuff in KDE, I basically fell in love.
Never looked back to Windows since.
Hello I'm brazilian! I came here to thank you for teaching how to customize this operating system, your customization was very beautiful!
Interesting video. I heard that KDE is highly customisable, but I never thaught that it would go down to this level of detail...
Konsole's title bar is only blurry (12:39) thanks to the option "Match Title Bar's and Window's color" (7:40) in the Sierra Breeze window decorations. Kind of a shame the default Breeze window decorations don't offer this. :)
I always love the KDE PLASMA desktop environment. Tons of awesome features, yet with clicks of the buttons customisations are made simple and self-explanationery.
Awesome! A thing of true beauty!!! Thanks for sharing.
Wow! As someone coming from Windows, this is amazing! Incredible! Thanks for sharing the possibilities!
Thanks for putting up the video. I really enjoyed going through it. The part about Global Menu was good. And the complementing Active Window Control is awesome. I didn't know KDE had this feature. Very nice.
Finally a Customization video with someone talking :) I loved it
Love it! TY!!!
I really like the style of your videos. Very calming!
this video is amazing! I always got overwhelmed by KDE and now I know exactly what to do!
Thank you so much Man, I'm currently working on College assignment of Ubuntu Remastering. This is very Helpful.
finally a customized linux that i'm 100% comfortable with, screw mac i'm staying with linux :D
I hear ya!!! same here
That was crazy detailed. Thank you for sharing
Great video, thanks 👍. Maybe I should overcome my old prejudice and give KDE another chance
110% you should.. I did just that and am now a full-time Linux user.. Kubuntu is my choice... been computing since GEOS on the C64 in 1988 as a kid and on MS products since DOS on the XT to windows 3.0 / 3.1 on the 286 in the early 90s... This video made me give Linux and KDE another go and I finally haven't touched windows in weeks apart from when I am forced too at work.. Kubuntu 19.10 is my recommendation
@@mrbrad4637 Lucky, I hate it xD, there's much in sight. What made me stop hopping was Majaro and i3wm. I think my favorite DE's Cinnamon.
Very interesting.
I normally just dive right in and run jobs on my "boxes"...
KDE PLASMA certainly does look pretty and clean... have been meaning to try it for quite a while...
I'm not a fan of MacOS, so I wouldn't be making mine look like this, but still lots of helpful tips.
Sameee, the thing I liked the most was the fusiom of the two bars what a way to earn few more screen space
A bit too MacOS'ish for me, especially with the La Capitaine icons, but overall, it's a pretty nice look
I like Breeze Dark icons more
I like papirus icons a lot ngl
Icons are trivial to change
Very nice customization! Love it! It inspired me to customize my Plasma desktop :)
You're making changing my workstation from Debian to Neon,damn you!
Awesome video,dude!
glad to hear that XD , Your welcome
I'm definitely going to install Manjaro KDE on my computer again just to try this out!
That's my weapon of choice on my workstation and laptop, couldn't be happier. The combination of Arch philosophy and community with the flexibility of KDE is the perfect match for me. And it isn't too resource heavy; I run two Activities each with two virtual desktops full of Chromium tabs, and on top of that I was running a virtual Windows domain with two servers and two clients simultaneously, all on a mediocre i5 and 8GB of RAM (plus SWAP of course), and KDE remained butter smooth and responsive.
I hate you. I've just installed and full setup a VM with plain Ubuntu for school projects... and now I'm already downloading Kubuntu...
I believe to enable some of the features mentioned in this video you need a newer version KDE (the bundled KDE in Kubuntu is not new enough)
just use arch, or if you hate installing through CLI use manjaro or antergos
@@xudongw I could do most of what I wanted of it, but thanks. I heard KDE Neon is just not as stable as Kubuntu, and I'm never going to switch to Arch or any distro like that.
@@GergiH Manjaro kde is nice and doesn't need much fiddling. But yeah, kubuntu is fine as well. But still, the best distro to utilize kde was Linux Mint imo. A shame that they're gonna discontinue future support.
@@aleisley5797 Every time I tried any other distro than anything Debian/Ubuntu based I had random issues which I just couldn't resolve, not even after googling for a day. I just don't like to edit random config files around the system hoping for some miracle and that I don't break anything else with it. Thus why I'm with Kubuntu.
When the app is maximized, KDE should give an option to hide the header /menu bar and make it visible on mouse hover.
God video man, i made a customization based on your video and look's awesome.
normally gnome user but that woobly lamp effect sold me to try out kde
Nice! Really appreciated this video! Keep it up the good work, man!
Nice video. Love the customization. I tried it and liked it
Thank you so much :) I've just installed KDE on Deepin...
oh sweet can you upload a video on the theme u created
This is a workaround for anyone being annoyed that you cannot double click anywhere in the top bar to unmaximize windows. (which is a result of Active Window Control's global menu not working)
Simpy use another AWC instead of a spacer between the global menu and whatever comes to the right. For this instance, disable the application icon, name and buttons. Also, enable the fill width option.
Amazing! More than just demonstrate how you made it your own, this is a glimpse into how configurable KDE is (so no, I don't mind the length of the video 😅 Good choice of music, by the way). I really want Kubuntu now, but in the meantime I can get Qt and KDE apps with Lubuntu on a decade-old netbook XD
you're making me want to download and test out kde plasma editions just to make things more customizable and aesthetic
I had found a few videos so well explained as yours , thanks man
This is awesome! One thing. I like to have the clock/calendar in the centre. When I have tried this in the past along with a global menu and trying to set two spacers either side of the clock everything's gonna screwy. The clock would dynamically shift depending on the global menu even though there was plenty of space. If you or anyone could think up a way around this I'd be a lot more likely to use KDE. Until then, it's Gnome for me. It's closest to how I like my desktop out of the box.
Amazing work,really like the "mac" style interpretation.
Very nice job! Certainly helped me with a few of the effects you used there. Cheers!
2:02 Need to install the additional latte-dock package on Debian.
You Sir , Just Made My Day!
This is why KDE is my preference. You can make it look like all the other ones if you want to lol.
Amazing options to configure your Linux Desktop! And wonderfully done. 👍
Classic non-transparent windows 95 GUI is the best, IMHO. I use default Breeze light theme as it is clean and looks nice and opaque theme for menus.
I love the way KDE can be customised into anything I like.
KDE needs to achieve packaged themes for all of this.
Actually that's a good Idea
Seriously. KDE really needs to reign in their features and customization. The biggest weakness of KDE is that we have to do a bunch of tweaking to get it this way.
Because of this video, i moved from gnome to kde :)
Wow! Nice Customizations
Awesome tutorial! Very much appreciated. At 0:44 you are talking about a video to make GTK and electron apps work with the application menu bar panel. Where can i find that video? And do you have an alternative for the active window control widget? It seems to be abandoned. Thanks!
Well, you've convinced me to switch from Gnome to KDE. (Or at least try it out for a while). Nicely done video.
that's funny , cz I am currently using Gnome XD
Thanks. The customize is even more necessary on Crostini (the Chromebook linux)! But your work is invaluable and very clever. (not sure if I can take the music background, tho. I see why Beethoven went mad.)
This is really beautiful.
WOW who knew you could do so much customization in KDE?!!! (Probably everyone except me)
There's a reason why it's called "Plasma"
@@MrTomas7777 ?
Ta for this video. Gonna have to use some of those settings myself, which I'd forgotten I could do!
thanks, I think this much customization takes me a year to do... still it took 2 hour thank you so much
Excellent video, man! Thanks a bunch!
you should continue making videos, don't quit!
Beautiful... I'm switching to KDE
have fun :)
I know it's hard to admit... but the default interface of KDE (similar to Windows) is the best for productivity. People tend to search for something different and esclusive, but it's always for the aesthetics.
can you make ??
top right corner
right click show desktop left click close window
top left corner
right click show workspace left click application menu
It's Plasma, of course you can. (At least you can get some of it.) You'll need to look in System Settings -> Desktop Behavior -> Screen Edges (tab). You'll find all the options for "hot corners" there.
Amazing video! Keep the good work.
You had me at wobbly windows!
Thanks! With your tutorial I managed to do what I wanted, a Unity like desktop.
Could you share a screenshot of the desktop? I'd like to see, as I quite liked Unity
I did this simple vídeo to show you. ruclips.net/video/cg1vrSeweJk/видео.html
I used the Materia theme and Papirus icons. The two panels are Latte, the menu is Simple Menu from the KDE Store, and I installed the applet-window-title and the applet-window-buttons from github.com/psifidotos/ to merge the windows titles bars to the top panel.
I didn't find themes to get something like the Ubuntu 19.04 look yet. I know there are these icons: www.opendesktop.org/p/1238162/, but I've not tried them yet.
I'm thinking about making a tutorial, but I'm quite busy with other projects I'm working on.
If you have any questions, just ask. :)
Is there a way to save all your setting changes into a theme? This way you could switch (and share) when every you felt like something different. Lots of themes could be made, various MacOS/Apple, Windows, OS/2, BEOS, and anything imaginal could be save as a theme and shared with everyone.
I am sure there is a way , since there is already a lot of kde Look and Feels wich are basically a bunch of kde themes, icons , color schemes ...etc... but I haven't tried making a one myself.
I fell in love with the ease of customizing Linux. But Windows will still be my daily driver due to its ease of use, available software and games.
Windows is easy to use? Heh, that's a good joke.
@@ShadowManceri In windows you to do nearly everything you can use the gui.
On most linux distros if you want to do some more advanced stuff, and sometimes even install simple app you need to use commands. Not everyone knows what commands to use. In windows you can do it only click things.
@@kratekgames7610 *"In windows you to do nearly everything you can use the gui."*
Mm-h, just like in Linux. Only difference that in Linux you are not limited to GUI. You don't need to use a single command ever. But those commands often are way faster and easier to use than navigating thru GUI's, especially if we want to automate some task or repeat it many times. Also Windows GUI system is horrible, it is super complicated. Like changing IP takes 10 clicks thru different looking menus and windows while in Linux it's 3 clicks in single window.
*"On most linux distros if you want to do some more advanced stuff, and sometimes even install simple app you need to use commands."*
Total bullshit. You have GUI to any package manager you can think of. You search the app and click install, done. In Windows you need to go manually browse google, click and click in websites, find the download and then in installer click all kind of options and pick this and that and decline spyware etc. It takes minutes in Windows compared to seconds in Linux.
But if you want to compile something manually, then that might require opening a shell as its just the most easiest way to do it. Same would be true with Windows. Some package managers also have ability to automatically compile for you, you just click install and done. You don't have that in Windows whatsoever.
*"Not everyone knows what commands to use. In windows you can do it only click things."*
And they don't need to. You can just use the GUI. I don't remember the last time I *had* to use shell for anything. But I prefer shell for many things because it is just faster and easier to do certain tasks. Like for example if I need to resize 1000 pictures in a directory I can just do command in shell: "mogrify -resize 50% " (star at the end that youtube doesn't like to show) and I'm done. It takes me like 3 seconds to write that command. In same time you maybe managed to open the app to do it. Like sure I could choose to spend 10 minutes to do it in app thru GUI. But I much prefer just to use the command. Sometimes if I need something super special operation I might spend that 10 minutes in GUI rather than reading the manual for command. But that's the beauty of it, I can *choose* how to do it given the task of what I want to accomplished. For example if that 10 minute operation would be something I need to do every day, I would make the command for it. Once I figured the options I don't need to worry about it anymore. I just run it and it takes 1 second compared to 10 minutes every day.
@@ShadowManceri Ok, I completely agree with you. But still some software is not available on linux. (I know it is possible to emulate things, but you loose performance. Sometimes not very much but still.)
@@kratekgames7610 Not all software and games are usable in Linux. But that also is somewhat attitude problem. Like you expect to get Big Mac from Burger King, even tho you could just order a whopper that is basically the same stuff. Or pick from many other alternatives. Might even find something better (personally I prefer whopper over Big Mac anyway). For any given tasks there usually is plenty of options.
There can be some marginal apps like Adobe's family that you can't get in Linux. And one of the apps might do something no other app does. However that is very marginal use case. 99% of people don't truly need any of those features. Like editing some camera photos in photoshop to post in facebook. If you pay for photoshop to get that done, you have been ripped off. In professional setting I totally get that workstation might be Windows or Mac based because of some X app only works there, or person knows that and it just isn't ideal to make any changes. That's fine. But we are again talking about edge cases. And corporate setting is very different deal anyway. You are not using best, you are using whatever someone with poor knowledge picked 10 years ago based on what he saw his nephew using. (Yes, that's a joke, but awful close to truth.)
That said, if you only need say Adobe family apps, then using virtual machine is fine solution. There are a lot benefits to it as well. For example you get snapshotting so in case windows decides to run update while you are middle of making stuff, you can just recover from that in couple seconds rather than getting blocked for days. You also reduce any attack vector to the system by limiting how far MS spyware reaches. They can't spy you as much because they really have nothing going. And you limit access to your actual system so that there is no Candy Crush saga installed by force or some Xbox nonsense.
Wine now days also is very good, I mean very good. It's not emulation and neither is virtual machines. As long the CPU architecture is same, that is is then you are working with native performance or at least very close to it. This is because the app actually runs with same instructions so no emulation is required. Unlike in console emulators where your PC doesn't have the console hardware so it needs to be emulated. In case of Wine you might even get better performance, funny enough, as less useless crap is running at the background. Virtual machine still executes all of it so no performance boost is possible. But there really isn't real performance loss either. As long you just have memory for it. In seamless mode you don't even notice that you are running the app in virtual machine. It behaves like native app excluding the looks as it still uses windows themes etc. Only real problem you might face is with audio and accelerated graphics. (Only really problem in games.)
Games that I play work just fine with Wine (using proton). And it's possible to use VM for that too tho gets bit tricky without second GPU. I'm not big gamer so my take on this is fairly limited. But last couple years I have not encountered a game that doesn't work. To be fair only bigger title I tried was Borderlands 3. But games like League of Legends won't work as they actively prevent Linux users from running it. They call it cheating. So I guess Linux gives you unfair advantage.
Awesome theme congrats
I remember making some customizations in KDE a few months back and it messed up certain things. I changed cursor styles and sizes, but it didn't change them throughout the system. I also hate that fact that when you change wallpaper, KDE doesn't seem to grasp it when you have multiple monitors.
Great video! I learned so much!
Manjaro KDE ...best distro with the best DE
Thank you. Excellent video tutorial. I see you from Ecuador, South America
you are welcome
His voice is like asmr
Followed it step by step the final result is incredible as its too old some widgets are removed as the app dashboard use plasma launchpad instead and also the widget style menu is moved to applications style everything else works great tut thx. (:
I use KDE Neon on my work laptop and people comment asking what its running, I spent a good hour configuring KDE to how I like it and it really does pay off because it's just so nice and personalized.
Thanks to share your Desktop Setup :)
Very good tutorial ! pls make more like this :D
Just an awesome look!
When you show how to make your terminal transparent at 12:29 you would think I would see your desktop through the transparency, but i can see MY wallpaper through the video, through my firefox browser and onto my desktop. I have tried moving the browser window around while playing and sure enough my wallpaper moves with it. When I pause the video it solidifies into a solid dark color.
Just wondering if anyone else is having this happen. I'm on Pop!_OS without any ricing.
Very good !!! Show the KDE Plasma !!!
Tempting... Question: Is KDE "clean" politically - or are they on the same track downhill (imho) like gnome, management wise?
Anyone who has done this (including OP), how much heavier does the system get after applying all these tweaks? Some of them are just batch color changes and I suspect they aren't really changing system resource utilization, however, the dock and the animations probably are? I like the aesthetics but do they come at a cost? Thanks in advance! :)
alt + f1 now works for super key too on latest plasma. set the shorcut as alt+F1 and then logout
How to open an application with leftclick - or even better - double-leftclick - from the system tray?
(Like I would press Open Appname from context menu, without opening context menu.)
Its current behavior is opening the context menu, same like right click.
(Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma 5.18.5 x86_64, currently all @ newest stable version )
The name of the channel😍😍
materia doesnt exist anymore tho. Only materia kde and materia manjaro themes which are weird af. Still great look tho :P Just finished installing arch uefi on my laptop with kde plasma also. I do get some weird bugs tho, like for example the battery indicator in the toolbar doesnt display the battery percentage correctly sometimes, konsole with command acpi -b gives correct battery status tho, same goes for upower. been looking online and it seems its a well known problem with kde. whenever it happens, a quick terminate plasmashell and restart seems to do the trick for me until i shutdown and restart system again. this has really been my only unfixable problem in kde so far thank god. The customization is rlly out of this world.
Been a long time since i last used a linux distro, but the fact that i saw all the oldskool compiz effects in this video made me rlly want to try out kde. last linux i used was ubuntu 9.04 lmao
thanks, yeah materia doesn't exist anymore I guess, but currently there is an Aritim dark Look and Feel which is even better
I want to make my parrot os like 9:39. I don't find like this.
How can I change?
Help me plz
Wow that is awesome is this possible on an acer 720p ?this is the best linux vid ive seen on youtube congrats
It runs fine on 4G's of ram and CPU doesn't really matter that much, i think a modern one will do fine
This is what I like about GNU/Linux and KDE in particular. You can do whatever the fuck you want with it.
is almost gnome like with kde, thanks for the video