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I've been using Plasma for about 2 years now and one thing I've never really done is theme it. I use openSUSE and I just use the included dark theme and I don't find it that good. It doesn't look very professional and I sometimes find I can't see buttons because they're too similar in shade to the surrounding area. I've looked through the themes and I don't know if it's an openSUSE or KDE thing but there don't seem to be that many and some seem to give me problems when updating.

Can anyone share some success stories or inspiration? Where do I get decent themes from and which are the good ones? I know I won't be popular for saying this but I think Windows 11 is the best looking OS available right now and I'd like something that feels modern and sleek like that. Are there some tools I need to run fancier themes or make everything look better?

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[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I always just end up staying with Breeze or Breeze Dark depending on my wallpaper.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I go with dark themes in most things and then with the os I put a screenshot of my isp contact line as the background image. Im pretty boring.

[-] mintiefresh@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I always go in and try some new ones but end up on breeze lol.

[-] lascapi@jlai.lu 1 points 3 days ago

Hi, I use the Breeze dark theme with KDE Plasma 6.5 and it looks very nice and I never felt that it's "too similar in shade to the surrounding area"

[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

I think you'd want to take a look at the QtCurve application style

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

woah woah woah win11 doesn't look good at all what are you talking about 👀

anyway for theming you should look into kvantum, it lets you customise qt application themes with SVGs.

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