I'm sorry to announce that I believe this fork must be essentially deprecated, my Linux machine has been broken for months by now and VMs run very poorly on the new macOS machine. With the building issues people have had, I cannot in good conscious merge the Qt6 PR without having built it myself, and I certainly won't be able to fix any bugs.
I encourage everyone to discuss their options and establish a fork. For security, I will not officially endorse any forks, but I want to leave the repository unarchived for the next few months to discuss who, if anybody, will be next. I just don't think its fair to any one of you for me to be at the reigns, paralyzed. I hope that by stepping aside a new leader can emerge.
Regardless of what happens, I'm happy that hundreds of you were able to extend the lifetime of this theme by a number of months. Peace ❤️
I am not endorsing these forks, but you should be aware of their existance and make an educated decision on where to go next:
- boehs/Lightly (you are here)
- https://github.com/Bali10050/Lightly ⭐ 108
"This fork attempts to revive lightly with a different approach from boehs, with the assumption that Luwx won't ever resume his project."
- https://github.com/Bali10050/Lightly ⭐ 108
- https://github.com/xuzhao9/Lightly ⭐ 20
"I am happy to continue the development. I am also using this theme on my Linux desktop personally. There are a few GTK theme bugs we need to fix, but overall I am happy with it and I only plan to keep KDE compatibility upgrade and bugfix. I am glad to review any patches that add enhancement, too."
This is a personal fork of Lightly where I merge pull requests sent to Luwx/Lightly
Lightly is a fork of breeze theme style that aims to be visually modern and minimalistic.
- Do not open pull requests directly here unless they change/require some code that has diverged from upstream
- If the pull request can sucessfully be merged into Luwx/Lightly, please open it there and I will merge it here. My intention is not for this to be a permanent fork (hopefully Luwx comes back!)
- Similarly, don't open issues here unless the issue was likely caused by some code here that's not in Luwx/Lightly
These rules are because I don't want to diverge too far from upstream. It should be easy for Luwx to catch up.
Thanks ❤️🐢
Lightly is a work in progress theme, there is still a lot to change, so expect bugs! Some applications may suddenly crash or flicker.
With transparent dolphin view off and no sidebar transparency:
With a full glass color scheme (currently full glass color schemes are very buggy and not fully supported):
Lightly configuration page can be found in the KDE system settings under the Application style section.
Most of these options are inherited from Breeze style, but Lightly has a few exclusive options that are enabled by default, including:
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Transparent Dolphin view (under the frames tab). This option disables the background and shadows of Dolphin view widget and draws top and bottom separators when the view has scrollable content.
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Sidebar opacity (under the transparency tab). By default, it's 60. If it's bellow 100, shadows will be drawn automatically.
The toolbar and menubar will follow the titlebar opacity. To configure the titlebar opacity, you will have to change the color scheme file directly in ~/.local/share/color-schemes. Open your desired color scheme and, in the [WM] section, add a fourth value to activeBackground and inactiveBackground, like activeBackground=0,0,0,127 where the last value is the alpha, that ranges from 0 (completely transparent) to 255 (totally opaque).
Taken from https://github.com/n4n0GH/hello
sudo apt install cmake build-essential libkf5config-dev libkdecorations2-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev extra-cmake-modules libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5windowsystem-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5iconthemes-dev gettext qt3d5-dev
sudo pacman -S cmake extra-cmake-modules kdecoration qt5-declarative qt5-x11extras
sudo dnf install cmake extra-cmake-modules "cmake(Qt5Core)" "cmake(Qt5Gui)" "cmake(Qt5DBus)" "cmake(Qt5X11Extras)" "cmake(KF5GuiAddons)" "cmake(KF5WindowSystem)" "cmake(KF5I18n)" "cmake(KDecoration2)" "cmake(KF5CoreAddons)" "cmake(KF5ConfigWidgets)" "cmake(Qt5UiTools)" "cmake(KF5GlobalAccel)" "cmake(KF5IconThemes)" kwin-devel libepoxy-devel "cmake(KF5Init)" "cmake(KF5Crash)" "cmake(KF5KIO)" "cmake(KF5Notifications)" kf5-kpackage-devel
sudo zypper install cmake gcc-c++ extra-cmake-modules libQt5Gui-devel libQt5DBus-devel libqt5-qttools-devel libqt5-qtx11extras-devel libQt5OpenGL-devel libQt5Network-devel libepoxy-devel kconfig-devel kconfigwidgets-devel kcrash-devel kglobalaccel-devel ki18n-devel kio-devel kservice-devel kinit-devel knotifications-devel kwindowsystem-devel kguiaddons-devel kiconthemes-devel kpackage-devel kwin5-devel xcb-util-devel xcb-util-cursor-devel xcb-util-wm-devel xcb-util-keysyms-devel
sudo eopkg install extra-cmake-modules kdecoration-devel qt5-declarative-devel qt5-x11extras-devel qt5-base-devel kcoreaddons-devel kguiaddons-devel kconfigwidgets-devel kwindowsystem-devel ki18n-devel kiconthemes-devel kcmutils-devel libxcb-devel xcb-util-devel qt5-wayland-devel kwayland-devel wayland-devel frameworkintegration-devel
git clone --single-branch --depth=1 https://github.com/boehs/Lightly.git
cd Lightly && mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF ..
make
sudo make install
For RedHat-based distros (like Fedora and OpenSUSE), run cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib64 -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF .. instead (#4)
In the build folder:
sudo make uninstall
Breeze authors and Kvantum developer Pedram Pourang.