A dark Plasma 5 Look and Feel theme with red highlights, loosely in the style of the Ubuntu Unity desktop, including a shell script to backup KDE config files, set up all wallpapers and KDE settings.
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN TESTED WITH SEVERAL LINUX DISTROS AND IS READY TO BE USED
- Ensure your file manager is set to view Hidden Files to see the backup files
Alternatively, you can download the "DarkUnification Look and Feel Theme" using KDE Plasma System Settings
- Navigate to "Workspace Theme" > "Look And Feel" OR "Look And Feel" from Plasma 5.16 and later
- Press the "Get New Looks" button,
- Search for "DarkUnification",
- Click Install on "DarkUnification Look and Feel Theme",
- Installation will take some time as it is downloading quite a few Plasma modules and widgets,
- You will be asked to enter your sudo password in order to install the Chili SDDM Theme,
- Once installed, click Close, select "DarkUnification", click "Use Desktop Layout from theme, and click Apply
- The DarkUnification desktop will be applied
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DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel-with-Install-Script notes
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May 2, 2019: Initial 0.1 release of DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel to github
- Dependencies: sed tar
- Download and extract anywhere in to your home directory... eg. under ~/Downloads
- From your favorite terminal emulator, launch install.sh
- E.G. say you extracted to ~/Downloads/DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel-with-Install-Script-master/DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel
- Running:
- sh Downloads/DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel-with-Install-Script-master/DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel/install.sh
- from your home directory... OR
- cd Downloads/DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel-with-Install-Script-master/DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel && sh install.sh
- will both work
- images face, Assimilation, A Time To Stand, Harvest Moon, Locked and Wilted are my own work
- this is my first attempt at a complete Plasma 5 Look and Feel theme with a Bash Script installer so there may be issues
- the first time it is used there are several KDE Plasma artifacts to download and install, so please be patient
June 8, 2019: Renamed git repository to "DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel-with-Install-Script" to better differenciatte it from the standard "DarkUnification-Look-and-Feel-Theme" repository.
June 20, 2019: Testing of several different Linux distros has successfully concluded
July 8, 2019: Version 1.0.1 adds 8 different face icons and updates install.sh
February 7, 2022: The scripts no longer work as well under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS going forward. This appears to be a trend with most custom themes with scripts. However, if it doesn't completly work, try running the process again, it usually sets it right.