kde-material-you-colors 1.6.0b1

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

Using pypi

pip install kde-material-you-colors
# Optional
# pywal to theme other programs using Material You Colors
pip install pywal
# Colr to display colored palette and seed colors from terminal (approximate)
pip install colr

Arch Linux

• AUR use your preferred AUR helper

openSUSE Build Service packages by marknefedov

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

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

• Flags take precedence over sonfiguration file, run kde-material-you-colors -h to see the list of available options

Starting/Stopping Desktop entries

Run kde-material-you-colors -cl to copy desktop entries to ~/.local/share/applications/

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

Running on Startup

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

Removing from autostart

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

Supported Wallpaper plugins

Wallpaper plugins must store the current wallpaper in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Confirmed working 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
Conway's Game of Life (cell color)	org.kde.plasma.gameoflife
Active blur	a2n.blur

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). Google LLC. / Pictogrammers for the icon