kde-material-you-colors 1.5.1

Automatic Material You Colors Generator from your wallpaper for the Plasma Desktop

🎨 KDE Material You Colors

Automatic Material You Colors Generator from your wallpaper for the Plasma Desktop

This is a Python program that uses the Python implementation of Google's Material Color Utilities to generate a Material Design 3 color scheme. Which is used to generate Light and Dark Color Themes for KDE (and pywal if installed) from your current wallpaper, automatically.

Features

Plasma specific

• Update automatically on wallpaper change
• Multiple wallpaper plugins supported
• Support for selecting Wallpaper plugin from secondary monitors
• Dark and Light Icon theme
• Support Plasma 5.26+ dark wallpaper variants
• Start automatically on login
• Make titlebar darker to match specified applications like terminals, code editors and other programs themed by pywal
• Follow Plasma Material You Dark/Light change to work with theme schedulers like Koi
• Plasma addons
  • Tint SierraBreeze window decoration buttons
  • TitleBar opacity control for Klassy and SierraBreezeEnhanced window decorations
  • ToolBar opacity control for Lightly Application style
  • Tint Klassy window decoration outline

Themeable programs

• Konsole color scheme
  • opacity control
• Pywal support to theme other programs using Material You Colors
• Basic KSyntaxHighlighting support (Kate, KWrite, KDevelop...)

Theming options

• Alternative Material You color selection if the wallpaper provides more than one
• Use your favorite color to generate Material You color schemes
• Custom colors list used for konsole/pywal
• Custom amount for background color tint
• Dark/light Color schemes (Plasma and pywal/konsole independently)
• Set a script/command that will be executed on start or wallpaper/dark/light/settings change
• Configuration file

Installing

Arch Linux

• AUR use your preferred AUR helper

openSUSE Build Service packages by @markusgod

Fedora

Add repository and install as root:

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:MarkNefedov/Fedora_37/home:MarkNefedov.repo
dnf install kde-material-you-colors

openSUSE

For openSUSE Tumbleweed add repository and install as root:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:MarkNefedov/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:MarkNefedov.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install kde-material-you-colors

For openSUSE 15.4 add repository and install as root:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:MarkNefedov/15.4/home:MarkNefedov.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install kde-material-you-colors

Other distributions/manual install

Expand

1. Clone/download this repository and cd to it

git clone https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors --branch main
cd kde-material-you-colors

1. Make the installer executable and run it as root

For Ubuntu based distros:

chmod +x install-ubuntu-based.sh
sudo ./install-ubuntu-based.sh

For Fedora based distros:

chmod +x install-fedora-based.sh
sudo ./install-fedora-based.sh

Updating

Fetch latest changes:

cd kde-material-you-colors
git pull

Repeat step 2

Optional features

• Install the Colr python module to display colored palette and seed colors from terminal
• Install the pywal python module to theme other programs using Material You Colors
  • Check pywal Customization Wiki to theme supported programs

Running

From terminal to debug your configuration

• Run kde-material-you-colors from terminal, this should change your Desktop colors right after.

NOTE: Without any configuration/arguments your wallpaper will be reset to Image Wallpaper Plugin

Options

• Run kde-material-you-colors -h to see the list of available options

Desktop entries

• To start/restart the program launch KDE Material You Colors from your applications list
• To stop it launch Stop KDE Material You Colors from your applications list

Startup script

After finishing the setup, you can make it run automatically on boot

1. Copy the default configuration to ~/.config/kde-material-you-colors/config.conf:

kde-material-you-colors -c

2. Set the program to automatically start with Plasma:

kde-material-you-colors -a

3. Reboot or logout/login and test the changes,

NOTE: your wallpaper will be reset to Image Wallpaper Plugin

Removing the autostart script

1. Open System Settings > Startup and Shutdown
2. Remove kde-material-you-colors by clicking on the - button.

Changing Current Wallpaper plugin

Use the configuration file !!

Using Plasma Wallpaper Settings may Crash Plasmashell and will set again the plugin from Configuration file

Working Wallpaper plugins

This is a list of compatible Plasma Wallpaper Plugins

Name	ID
Image (default)	org.kde.image
Picture of the day	org.kde.potd
Slideshow	org.kde.slideshow
Plain color	org.kde.color

Configuration file

• Copy default configuration: run kde-material-you-colors -c
• Edit ~/.config/kde-material-you-colors/config.conf
• Run kde-material-you-colors with no arguments from terminal to test it.
• You can view the sample configuration file here

Notes

• To update color with plasma-apply-colorscheme (utility provided by plasma developers), the file containing the new color scheme must have a different name than the current one, to workaround this the program creates two scheme files with different names, then applies one after the other. As a result you end up with duplicated color schemes and maybe some lag while updating schemes.

Bug reporting / Feature requests / Contributing

Please read the Contributing guidelines in this repository

Thanks & Credits

• Avanish Subbiah for the Python implementation of Material Color Utilities required by this project.
• This comment by throwaway6560192 on Reddit and @pashazz (Pavel Borisov) ksetwallpaper for the script to get the current Wallpaper that served me as starting point.
• Everyone that made material-color-utilities possible.
• Pywal developers
• Albert Ragány-Németh for the C# implementation of Material Color Utilities (used until v0.8.0).