Zren / breeze-alphablack

Breeze Light theme with minor improvements and a black panel/titlebar.

Breeze AlphaBlack

Breeze Light theme with minor improvements and a black panel/titlebar.

https://store.kde.org/p/1084931/

Screenshots

Install

• System Settings > Desktop Theme
• Get New Themes...
• Search for "Breeze AlphaBlack", install it, then apply it.
• If you want the breeze window decorations in black, run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/setthemecolor.py 0,0,0

Customize Theme

"AlphaBlack Control" Widget

v10 introduced an accompanying widget to easily change the theme's accent color, panel opacity, or change the taskbar to look a bit more like Windows 10.

You can download the widget here, or install it via the GUI:

1. Right click the Panel > Add Widgets
2. Get New Widgets > Download
3. Search for "AlphaBlack Control" and install it.

After installing, the widget should appear in your system tray. If you lock your widgets, it will hide in the system tray popup.

Command Line

Run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/desktoptheme.py
to see all commands in the help message.

Panel Opacity

Run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/desktoptheme.py set panel.opacity 0.75
where 0.75 means the panel is 75% visible.

You can also set the dialog.opacity for panel popups, and widget.opacity for desktop widgets.

Panel Color + Window Decorations

Run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/desktoptheme.py set theme.accentColor 255,255,255
where 255,255,255 is your desired RGB color.

Window Decorations

Run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/desktoptheme.py settitlebarcolor 255,255,255
where 255,255,255 is your desired RGB color.

Run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/desktoptheme.py resettitlebarcolors
to reapply the colors from your seleted color scheme.

Task Manager Theme

Run python3 ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-alphablack/settasksvg.py outside
where outside draws the line on the edge of the screen like Windows 10, or inside like Breeze.

Window Decorations

To color the the default breeze window decorations (window titlebars). You can either:

1. Download a custom window decoration.
2. Use the set titlebar colors python script above.
3. Use the System Settings > Colors > Colors section to color the titlebar background/foreground. You will not be able to color the frame color (bottom/left/right of the window) from this menu.
4. Add/set the following values in your ~/.config/kdeglobals file to set the borders to black (when using the breeze window decorations).

[WM]
activeBackground=0,0,0
activeBlend=17,17,17
activeFont=Noto Sans,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
activeForeground=239,240,241
inactiveBackground=8,8,8
inactiveBlend=75,71,67
inactiveForeground=189,195,199
frame=0,0,0
inactiveFrame=8,8,8

Misc

• Wiki for Editing Desktop Themes
  https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma5/ThemeDetails
• Code that parses the colors file for use with the svg CSS colors. https://github.com/KDE/plasma-framework/blob/master/src/plasma/private/theme_p.cpp#L422