Description:

kdematerialyoucolors 1.9.3

🎨 KDE Material You Colors

Automatically generate light/dark color themes for KDE (and pywal if installed) from your current wallpaper, using @T-Dynamos Python implementation of Google's Material Color Utilities






Features
Plasma specific

Plasma Widget (Plasma 6 version)
Support for all Wallpaper plugins (color, image, slideshows, animated, Plasma 5.26+ dark wallpaper variants)
Update automatically on wallpaper change
Change icon themes
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 colorfulness and brightness of theme
Color scheme variants from Material You (Vibrant, Monochrome, Neutral...)
Dark/light Color schemes (Plasma and pywal/konsole independently)
Set a script that will be executed on start or wallpaper/dark/light/settings change
Configuration file

Installing


Arch Linux AUR use your preferred AUR helper (e.g yay -S kde-material-you-colors)


openSUSE Tumbleweed Install instructions


Fedora 40 and Fedora Rawhide Install instructions


Manual install


Install pipx system packages from your distribution packages.


Install the backend
For Plasma 5 this is the last version, development has switched to plasma 6
pipx install kde-material-you-colors==1.7.1
pipx inject kde-material-you-colors pywal

For Plasma 6
pipx install kde-material-you-colors
pipx inject kde-material-you-colors pywal
# to upgrade to newer version
pipx upgrade kde-material-you-colors

Note: You may need to install gcc python-dbus-dev libglib2.0-dev system packages or their equivalent for your distribution. Additionally, installing some libraries for Pillow may be necessary, see Pillow docs


Install the widget from the KDE Store Plasma 6 version | Plasma 5 version

Right click on the Panel > Add Widgets > Get New Widgets > Download New Plasma Widgets
Search for "KDE Material You Colors", install & add it to your Panel/Desktop.



Install the screenshot helper. Optional but recommended if you use other than default Image wallpaper plugin
Plasma 6
Install git extra-cmake-modules system packages or their equivalent for your distribution.
git clone https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors
./install-screenshot-helper.sh

Plasma 5
Install git extra-cmake-modules system packages or their equivalent for your distribution.
git clone https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors -b plasma5
./install-screenshot-helper.sh



To upgrade to a new version repeat these steps.
Note: When you upgrade te widget to a newer version it will inform you if it requires a new version of the backend.
Running
You can Start and change the configuration from the widget.
From terminal
kde-material-you-colors

Run kde-material-you-colors -h to see the list of available options (Flags take precedence over configuration file)
Starting/Stopping Desktop entries
If not installed by your package manager, run kde-material-you-colors -cl

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

Running on Startup
kde-material-you-colors -a

Removing from autostart

Open System Settings > Autostart
Remove kde-material-you-colors by clicking on the Trash button.

Configuration file
The preferred way to change the configuration is from the widget. If the configuration doesn't exist, it will be automatically created by the widget.
Editing manually
The default configuration file can be created by running kde-material-you-colors -c the location is ~/.config/kde-material-you-colors/config.conf
Run kde-material-you-colors with no arguments from terminal to test your changes in real time.
Due to Qt limitations, comments are removed from the configuration file by the widget. You can view the sample configuration file with comments here.
FAQ
Q. How does this different from Plasma's "Accent Color From Wallpaper" and "Tint all colors with accent color"?
There are some key differences:

Brighter accent/buttons colors
Option to choose another color if the wallpaper returns more than one
Can also apply colors to Konsole and pywal (both from wallpaper and custom ones)
Colors comparison https://imgur.com/a/a28uZka (kde-material-you-colors top, default tint option bottom)

Q. Why there are duplicated color schemes in System Settings
To update color with plasma-apply-colorscheme (utility provided by KDE developers), the file containing the new color scheme must have a different name than the current one, to workaround that, this program creates two color 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.
Q. Can't get wallpaper colors of the default wallpaper
If you are using the default Image wallpaper plugin try changing the image to something else at least once first.
Q. Slideshow wallpaper (or any other Plugin) doesn't update colors correctly
Try enabling Only use screenshot method from the widget Advanced settings
Q. How does wallpaper detection work and why it fails sometimes?
The wallpaper is obtained in the following order:

First, uses the Plasma Desktop Scripting API to read Wallpaper plugin configuration.
If the previous fails, the screenshot helper (if installed) is used

The backend uses the KWin Scripting API and calls the screenshot helper to take a Screenshot of the Desktop view using the KWin's Screenshot plugin
Both methods are somewhat robust but there are edge cases when detection will fail, which are explained here
Bug reporting / Feature requests / Contributing
Please read the Contributing guidelines in this repository
Support the development
If you like the project you can:

Thank you ❤️
Acknowledgements

@T-Dynamos Python Implementation of Material Color Utilities used by this project.
@avanisubbiah Python Implementation of Material Color Utilities (used until v1.8.0).
Material Color Utilities
Pywal used to apply material colors to pywal supported software
MaterialColorUtilities (C#) (used until v0.8.0).
xdg-desktop-portal-kde base for desktop screenshot helper.
kdotool base for getting desktop window id.
Google LLC. / Pictogrammers for the widget icon assets.
This comment on Reddit and ksetwallpaper for the code to get the current Wallpaper that served me as inspiration.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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