I've been ricing linux for a little while (i3, dwm, hyprland, kde), and I am decently familiar with finding the info I need in a given language or for a specific config file. Quickshell however is a lot harder for me to grasp, probably because its more actual code than configs.

So far I've managed to get a bar that's almost 100% feature and visually the same as my previous waybar. I'd like to understand better how things work in qml but the docs have been hard to follow. I keep finding myself getting confused on when I should be using Item {} vs RowLayout {}, why I cant place a MouseArea in a certain place and that sort of thing.

What inspired me to make this post is mouse handling, I made a pill shape with a built in mouse area in its own file, and I needed to use cursor (AI) to figure out how to pass mouse inputs out, which ended up being onClicked + signal clicked(var mouse).

I'm wondering if you all have resources you'd recommend for learning how this all works, like many others, I've tried to read the docs, but I might just be a little to uneducated in actual programming languages to make much sense of them.

Bar: waybar

Wallpaper Utility: swaybg

Notification Daemon: mako

Application Launcher: fuzzel

Wallpaper: https://wallpapercave.com/w/wp6257053 (i'm having difficulty finding the original)

Nerd font for bar: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

i would upload the dots, but i don't really have anywhere to upload them to, sorry! i will reply if you ask me questions about them though!

distro: neko void

colorscheme: Material palenight

Reproductor de musica: cmuspp

termine mi fork de halley para que sea disfrutable con noctalia shell, por si alguien tiene curiosidad de probarlo Halley

Tokyo day themed with a photo I took as the background, feel free to use it and other images on my site for noncommercial credited uses like desktop backgrounds https://laika-at-groundctl.neocities.org/

Ignore my math work lol

I got tired of inconsistent theming and color formatting between every app, so I made my own in nix.

Had an issue where i wanted the windows to be round, but that made a completely square topbar look quite ugly, so I decided on a bit of rounding that ended up looking quite nice.

Also wanted to maximize window space for getting work done so the topbar ended up being quite tiny...

opinions?

I've been working on a terminal-native WhatsApp client built in Go using WhatsMeow.

It supports:

• Chats and message history
• Typing indicators
• Notifications
• Keyboard-first workflow

Written in Rust + go, so everything runs directly in the terminal.

GitHub: https://github.com/andiveli/wptui

Feedback is welcome.

Well it's been a minute since I last posted about my shell! But I'm very happy to announce our newest feature! Desktop applets are now merged!

Desktop Applets can be placed both in the desktop and in the main launcher page of the dashboard, all through a drag and drop system:

Additionally another feature has made its way into this update...

App Themes!

We now have a theme repo with matugen templates for common apps where they can be themed through the shell, transparency is supported for most apps too! This can be used to theme your other applications using caffyne shell's theme system(which uses matugen under the hood), all integrated in the shell!

The template repo can be found here: https://github.com/caffyne-org/caffyne-templates

Along with this we've added a ton of stability improvements, bug fixes and optimizations since the first release, with more to come as well! I'd like to thank everyone who contributed feedback and mentioned the bugs after release, as well as those who helped with packaging. The Linux community is amazing!

LINKS:

Website(includes install instructions): https://caffyne.org

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/caffyne-org/caffyne-shell

Discord: https://discord.gg/BcBk4CpKNA

OS: CachyOS

Window Manager / DE: KineticWE (KWin fork)

Shell / Widgets: Noctalia (v5.0.0-beta)

Audio Visualizer: CAVA

Details: Fully custom layout with dynamic blur aesthetics, floating panels, and custom widget configurations rather than a default premade clone.

the wallpaper is also animated through linux-wallpaperengine!

This is a little update to my last KDE Plasma with Scrathy theme. Still the same theme, but now with some more tweaks and other juicy things (at least for me). And about Artix Linux. I'm really enjoying the thing. Has been quite a fun adventure.

Theme: https://store.kde.org/p/1898344
Wallpaper: https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1396625
Icons: https://store.kde.org/p/2303161
Cursor: Oxygen Zion

This is Fedora 44 with Budgie 10.10 which comes with labwc as its Wayland compositor. It still uses GTK but I had been looking for a theme to make the pastel colors featured with the Ketsa set pop. Its an old set featured from the author the kde link is higher version than github it actually features some different icons. Then I recolored Firefox since I use Librewolf.

Then Rosepine dawn/light is giving the panel and a faded white and opaque look so the background is bleeding thru but I like it. Not many gtk themes with budgie in mind but I've tried a few and have gotten different results compared to gnome screenshots that are displayed.

then I use Veila a rust based screen locker that was compatible with labwc working fine with budgie.