ClassikStyles

Overview

Fork of KDE Breeze to provide highly customizable Classik and Kite window decoration styles in a binary. Install with the instructions below, and then enable in System Settings -> Appearance -> Window Decorations, and also in System Setings -> Appearance -> Application Style.

• Also provides Oxygen/Breeze and Redmond button icon styles;
• Provides both a Window Decoration and an Application Style so that icons in dockable panels and MDI applications consistently match the titlebar icons (make sure to enable both in your Plasma Appearance settings!);
• Configurable whether to draw bold button icons for HiDPI displays; by default automatically turns off bold icons on LoDPI 96DPI screens to prevent blurring;
• Square or circular button highlights (square is now default as has a larger clickable area).
• Ability to inherit system colour-scheme highlight colours for hover and focus, as well as titlebar colour. Auto-enhances contrast in cases where it is poor;
• Option to have matching titlebar colour and border colour;
• Configurable button spacing (left and right), titlebar margins (sides, top/bottom and option for different maximized), all with scaling for HiDPI;
• Configurable corner radius, also scales with different DPIs;
• Transparency/opacity configurable for both active/inactive windows; setting to turn off opacity for maximized windows; blur is enabled;

Known issues

• GTK apps' titlebar buttons will not update if you change a setting. Workaround: you need to select another window decoration or colour and then select ClassikStyles again to generate them.
• If you have Bold button icons set to Auto, GTK apps' titlebar buttons will be rendered as Fine. Workaround: explicitly select Bold if you want bold.

Installation

Pre-built packages

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed/Leap repository:

https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Apaul4us&package=classikstyles

NB: for Leap you will first need to install newer KDE packages from https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories

   

Raw RPM binary packages are also available from the first OpenSUSE Open Build Service link above -- select OpenSUSE and then "Grab binary packages directly" -- these RPMs will also work in other RPM-based distributions such as Fedora or Mageia.

   

Compile from source

Step 1: First, Install Dependencies

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed/Leap build dependencies

(Leap requires newer KDE packages from https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories first):

sudo zypper in cmake extra-cmake-modules libQt5Core-devel libQt5Gui-devel libQt5DBus-devel libqt5-qtx11extras-devel libkdecoration2-devel kcoreaddons-devel kguiaddons-devel kconfigwidgets-devel kwindowsystem-devel ki18n-devel kiconthemes-devel kpackage-devel libQt5QuickControls2-devel frameworkintegration-devel kcmutils-devel

Ubuntu/KDE Neon build dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential libkf5config-dev libkdecorations2-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev extra-cmake-modules libkf5guiaddons-dev libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5windowsystem-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev gettext cmake libkf5iconthemes-dev libkf5package-dev

Arch/Manjaro build dependencies

sudo pacman -S kdecoration qt5-declarative qt5-x11extras cmake make gcc extra-cmake-modules

Fedora build dependencies

sudo dnf install cmake extra-cmake-modules
sudo dnf install "cmake(Qt5Core)" "cmake(Qt5Gui)" "cmake(Qt5DBus)" "cmake(Qt5X11Extras)" "cmake(KF5GuiAddons)" "cmake(KF5WindowSystem)" "cmake(KF5I18n)" "cmake(KDecoration2)" "cmake(KF5CoreAddons)" "cmake(KF5ConfigWidgets)" "cmake(KF5IconThemes)" "cmake(KF5Package)" "cmake(Qt5Quick)" "cmake(KF5FrameworkIntegration)" "cmake(KF5KCMUtils)"

Step 2: Then, build and install

First, edit the install.sh file and check that the -DKDE_INSTALL_LIBDIR corresponds to your /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib directory (distribution dependent):

For OpenSUSE/Fedora:

-DKDE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib64

For Ubuntu:

-DKDE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib

Then build and install from source script:

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Uninstall build script:

chmod +x uninstall.sh
./uninstall.sh