301
I made a KDE Plasma theme to look like Windows 98 [EDIT: v0.9] (store.kde.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
54 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

EDIT: v0.9 released

and a dark version

I really just put a bunch of pieces together. Forked from Reactionary Plus, but swapped out the icons, cursors, window decorations, color scheme, and made some slight tweaks to the layout.

More screenshots and changelogs here: https://store.kde.org/p/2330858

To install this, open System Settings, go to Colors & Themes -> Global Theme. In the top right there's a button for "Get New...", wait for it to load (it's very slow) then search for reactionary, and wait again, then install Reactionary 98.

This is my first time messing with any of this stuff, it was a bit janky lol.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I've tried a couple versions of this out of nostalgia a few times like using chicago95 and some other custom options. you can pretty much get it right to the classic feel of old Windows GUI's but then you start using it and think "how did I ever use a PC like this?" especially when you're so used to minimal tiling. it's fun for a bit but I always just ended back to like sway or something.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    I don't personally have any nostalgia for the Mac interface, but I do wish Plasma 6 had a good latte-dock replacement.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Latte has been deprecated because its features are (afict) all now included in the base plasma panels.

    You can make extra panels, have them float, have them dynamically change size, use panel colorizer to retheme only one (if desired).

    On my ultraportable I've got a sidebar and a lower dock. The sidebar has actively running apps, my menu bar for open windows, a big honkin app launcher button, and my notification panel. My dock has all my frequently used apps, and some shortcuts to frequently used websites. All just minimal plasma-session + panel colorizer.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    How do you do dynamic resizing without Latte?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    In edit mode when changing the location of the bar there should be an option for "fit content" under height Example: (sorry about the moire pattern, low res screen)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, I mean the thing where application icons grow as your cursor passes over them.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    OH! I actually don't think that's possible without some kludging.

    You could make a panel for each icon, have them side by side, and use Panel Colorizer to make them grow on hover, but that's mega-tedious. Totally doable though. I'd hate to see plasma's ram requirements with like 9 panels each being monitored for activity though, I suspect the performance on that setup would be rough.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    The feature I haven't been able to replace from latte was dynic transparency. Basically I want to have my taskbar transparent when no windows touching it, but look normal when overlapping a window or something's maximized

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    So like, inverted show/hide?

    I'm not sure I understand, I'd be interested in seeing it though, it sounds peculiar and I love (for novelty) peculiar UIs

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yeah, basically but with all the buttons and icons still visible, just the background color turned transparent.

    I've migrated all my systems to plasma 6, but I'll check if I have any old screenshots laying around

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent