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Freeze

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Score 77.7%

Description:

Window decoration for Aurorae, based on Breeze and Dynamo. Transparent for blur compositing (50% opaque) and supports color schemes (window background for content, view hover for button colors). Moderate border and title bar size (just slightly larger than Oxygen).

This represents what I wish a modern desktop theme for KDE would look like, in terms of both appearance and features. Meant to be used with the Breeze or Oxygen Transparent widget styles, and compatible with both KDE4 and Framework 5. The screenshot shows various color styles achieved with system color settings.

Plasma counterpart: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=168760

Last changelog:

Changelog 5 months ago

1.0: Initial release.

1.1: Add a simple and discrete border around background decorations. Just like the Breeze widget theme, it uses the window text color.

1.2: Fix background shadow and button color.

1.3: Make the border somewhat bigger.

1.4: Slightly bigger borders and buttons.

1.5: Bigger buttons with more spacing.

pr0cella
2 months ago

9 9 excellent

pieter
3 months ago

I am a longtime user of the Freeze Aurorae theme. Great work! However I made some changes in the freezerc file:
BorderBottom=6 becomes 1
BorderLeft=6 becomes 1
BorderRight=6 becomes 1
Now you can realy have NO border if you want to and let kwin make the border wider in the settings...
ButtonMarginTop=0 becomes 3
Looks nicer!
I hope you appreciate this constructive criticism of a big fan!

MirceaKitsune
3 months ago

Nice! I like it with borders so I'll keep the original this way, but feel free to submit your fork if you wish.

unascribed
1 year ago

9 +

pieter
1 year ago

Oops, I tried the freeze window-decoration using Wayland and it worked 100% but when I went back to X it kept working. It seems all is perfect now!

MirceaKitsune
1 year ago

Might have been a temporary bug caused by the update, such as a cache issue. I shall be on the lookout for this once the Plasma 5.13 update rolls over in my distro.Thanks for the heads up!

pieter
1 year ago

The freeze window-decoration stopped working correctly after plasma 5.13 was installed. Too bad because it is the most beautiful decoration around.

pieter
2 years ago

Would there be a way to make your great window decoration Freeze adapt to the opacity of the plasma desktop theme?

MirceaKitsune
2 years ago

Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, KDE does not let you adjust the opacity of elements. This is a feature I've actually been wanting to propose: Allow adjusting the RGBA of each entry in the color scheme, rather than just the RGB and leaving the alpha fixed. Sadly I don't know if such a major change will ever be brought over.

StephenVictor
2 years ago

Looks great. Just what I've been looking for. It works well with the Agik transparent Plasma theme: https://store.kde.org/p/1187441/

MirceaKitsune
2 years ago

Note that this theme has its own Plasma counterpart, in case you're interested in using that as well: https://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=168760

StephenVictor
2 years ago

Thank you! Very nice.

needles
2 years ago

hi! using Freeze for my plasma theme, would like to use it for window manager as well - is it possible to get a transparent background like you have in the image for the decoration? that was something I've wanted to get functioning since the compiz days.

MirceaKitsune
2 years ago

Greetings. The transparency of the KWin theme is the same as that of the Plasma panel background (0.5 alpha). Just select the theme for KWin and it will work the same way as that for Plasma.

pieter
2 years ago

Hurrah! I found out! The Freeze window decoration gets its color from the "colors" file that is located in the "root directory" of the plasma-theme. Plasma-themes can be located in the folder ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme or in /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme. There is the file "colors" and in the file "colors" there is the line: BackgroundNormal=xx,yy.zz under the item [Colors:Window]. And THERE the color of the window decoration comes from. GREAT, thank you so much for pointing me in the rigt direction!

pieter
2 years ago

I read that to change the color of the window decoration I have to change Configure Desktop -> Application Appearance -> Colors -> Colors -> Common Colors -> Window Background. That seems strange. Isn't the freeze window decoration color derived from Configure Desktop -> Application Appearance -> Colors -> Colors -> Common Colors ->Active Titlebar?

MirceaKitsune
2 years ago

Unfortunately the titlebar color is not made available to svg elements for Aurorae. Therefore I went with what Oxygen did, and used the background color which was the closest match.

rosenrot
4 years ago

Crash kwin in plasma 5 :( I have to do alt+f2 and kwin_x11

MirceaKitsune
4 years ago

It's a theme for Aurorae, consisting of svg elements. It can't cause a crash by itself. Something else must have broken in KWin or its settings... which is sadly not surprising considering plasma5 is still pretty new. Perhaps try other themes with transparency and / or color scheme support, otherwise I don't know more that can be of help here unfortunately.

armageddon51
4 years ago

The theme is very nice but it seems to introduce a bug. A lot of time when maximizing or minimizing a window, the content is completely black. It is repeatable as well.Restoring the original theme clear the problem.

MirceaKitsune
4 years ago

Thank you for reporting this. Although I don't think it's something the theme can fix, since it's likely not a bug in the svg elements. Plasma 5 is still in experimental stage and very buggy from many perspectives... last time I checked, even colors wouldn't update properly until restarting the system a few times.

My other machine still runs Plasma 5 however and uses this theme. I never got this problem there either. It might be a corrupt cache perhaps?

iameric
4 years ago

Very elegant. Thanks for the upload.

EazyVG
5 years ago

Unable to find where exactly I can make it darker/blacker to that of default lighter/whitish colour. KDE 4.14. Thanks for the work.

MirceaKitsune
5 years ago

Configure Desktop -> Application Appearance -> Colors -> Colors -> Common Colors -> Window Background.

armageddon51
4 years ago

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. One request though, the white text on the active title bar is hard to see. Is there a way to darken it ? There is a selection in the color menu too but it has no effect.
TX

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Changelog 5 months ago

1.0: Initial release.

1.1: Add a simple and discrete border around background decorations. Just like the Breeze widget theme, it uses the window text color.

1.2: Fix background shadow and button color.

1.3: Make the border somewhat bigger.

1.4: Slightly bigger borders and buttons.

1.5: Bigger buttons with more spacing.

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pr0cella Feb 03 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

unascribed Aug 01 2018 9 excellent

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abgr Feb 24 2018 9 excellent

azawi Nov 10 2016 9 excellent

rosenrot Jun 13 2015 9 excellent

janet Mar 20 2015 9 excellent

JonasArch Feb 25 2015 9 excellent

schnelle Feb 02 2015 9 excellent

migue Jan 30 2015 9 excellent

Base: 4 x 5.0 Ratings

Umi

Mar 21 2015

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