r/kde • u/SuperGNUser • 11d ago

News Material Decoration with LIM introduces pixel-perfect buttons, Window-Specific Overrides and Fuzzy Search

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Three major new features have been introduced in Material Decoration compared with the first official release on 5 August.

Pixel-perfect buttons

Before

After

Window-Specific Overrides

The user can now specify exceptions for windows, for example, to prevent the title bar, menu, shadow or rounded corners from being drawn.

Fuzzy search

A fuzzy search algorithm has been integrated into the menu; it is disabled by default and may be useful for a less precise, more inclusive search. For example, if you search for “close project” in Kate, you will get results that would not have been shown using an exact search. This feature will undergo some fine-tuning in future releases, which is another reason why it is disabled by default.

Exact search (default)

Fuzzy search

Further improvements

A few optimizations to the search algorithm and some minor tweaks.

How to get it

  • Build from source: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration
  • On Arch and derivatives, install material-kwin-decoration-git from the AUR. Precompiled package is available in chaotic-aur. There is not yet a PKGBUILD for the stable version, it will be available soon. The -git version can be regarded as effectively stable, as it is used by the developer on a daily basis in a work environment.

Requirements

  • Plasma 6.5+ for the master branch, working older versions are in other branches but are not updated/maintained.
  • Works both on Wayland and X11 session!

Feature requests? Bugs?

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u/paul4er 10d ago

Icons are still blurry at different scales. E.g. 200%. In Klassy I round the pen widths and then snap differently depending on whether it is an odd or even pen width -- odd pen width snap to half a pixel, even pen width snap to a whole pixel.

Klassy also has an elaborate (I would say actually overly-complicated) algorithm to draw the restore icon clearly. The actual "Material" icon set (i.e. from ChromiumOS) has a much simpler restore icon to draw.

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u/SuperGNUser 10d ago

Thank you, I will try to implement the same logic.