acarasimon96/materia-kde

Materia KDE - This is a port of the popular GTK theme Materia for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.

In this repository you'll find:

Aurorae Theme
Konsole Color Schemes
Kvantum Themes
Plasma Color Schemes
Plasma Desktop Theme
Plasma Look-and-Feel Settings
Yakuake Skins
SDDM Themes
Wallpapers

Installation

Ubuntu and derivatives

You can install materia-kde from our official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends materia-kde

or download .deb packages from here.

Materia KDE Installer

Use the script to install the latest version directly from this repo (independently on your distro):

Install

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/materia-kde/master/install.sh | sh

Uninstall

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/materia-kde/master/install.sh | uninstall=true sh

Third-party packages

Packages in this section are not part of the official repositories. If you have a trouble or a question please contact with package maintainer.

Distro	Maintainer	Package
Arch Linux	Bruno Pagani	`sudo pacman -S materia-kde kvantum-theme-materia` ^[link]
Arch Linux	Josip Ponjavic	materia-kde-git ^AUR
openSUSE	Konstantin Voinov	materia-kde ^{OBS [link]}
Fedora	Robert-André Mauchin	`sudo dnf install materia-kde` ^[src]
Debian 10+	Debian Desktop Themes Team	materia-kde

NOTE: If you maintainer and want be in the list please create an issue or send a pull request.

Recommendations

For better looking please use this pack with Kvantum engine.

Run kvantummanager to choose and apply Materia's theme.
Install Papirus icon theme for a more consistent and beautiful experience.
Install widgets Minimal Menu and Digital Clock WL
Set icons view for systemsettings
Set 16px icon size on Toolbar & Main Toolbar
Set No Borders for Aurorae decoration on systemsettings

Hacks for small screen resolution

Install widgets Active Window Control & Application Menu and move to panel
Disable window buttons & titlebar on decoration:

open rc-file on aurorae theme and set:

ButtonHeight=0
ButtonWidth=0
TitleHeight=0
TitleEdgeTop=0

Use GTK3-noCSD script

Known issues

On NVIDIA propietary video driver Aurorae have wrong rendering by default with all themes.

Wrong Rendering	Right Rendering

For fix that use this config on ~/.Xresources:

Xft.dpi:       96
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting:   true
Xft.autohint:  false
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba:      rgb

Restart PC for apply DPI settings.

BlackList apps

More newest Qt/KDE apps now use QML/Kirigami - this style NOT SUPPORT THEMING on ANY engine, more elements HARDCODED. Please not open issue about that. We can't doing anything!!!

Muon Discover
Kirigami Gallery
Ikona
Alligator
Kaidan
Elisa
KDE Itinerary
KTrip
Kirogi
VVave (ex Babe)
Keysmith
Calindori
KDE Connect SMS Module
Some modules systemsettings5 & kcm
to be continued...

Extra Themes

Materia skin for VLC
Telegram theme
Pegasus Frontend theme

Donate

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License

GNU GPL v3

acarasimon96 / materia-kde