 Plasma is meant to be customized. I think I surprise no one by saying that and somebody really manages to take that very far and I'm always very impressed. In fact, I always tried myself to make the most out of KD Plasma and I even posted some of my own configurations to Unix Porn. So what I'm going to do today is gather and take some of the prettiest wildest customizations of KD Plasma, show it to you, tell you a bit about how they are implemented and then of course I will give you some of my own tips though that in a separate video. So this one is just to talk about how nice other setups are. So let's start with the first one which looks like this and I mean I just love the pixelated look and I was so impressed that KD Plasma could do this. So how is this even implemented? So firstly there is a custom font that's used I think for the clock and for the UI that is very pixelated. The font is called Dojica and I mean you can see how it looks like. Regarding the dock weirdly enough it's not the Plasma Pano though it could be and it's not LatteDoc either even though again it could be but it's Plank which I never usually see around but it's basically you know just a dock with just you know it just does that it's a dock. The icons are also beautiful just beautiful hand crafted by another redditor who posted them on Reddit. I don't think there are too many of them but these ones that we do have just looks beautiful. So 10 out of 10 this this is my favorite favorite one wow and I mean the wallpaper is also chosen beautifully and it's pixelated. Everything just fits together so nicely. I think that's the real point of customization. Everything has to be bold, wild and still fit together. That's the whole point. This does it. This one also does the trick and in my opinion what works really well of this customization are the docks. You can see like five of them around sorry four I cannot count. Four of them around. They are all LatteDoc sadly no KD Plasma Pano and in fact KD Plasma Panels wouldn't be able to do this even though yes they are floating my pleasure. They cannot attach to the border as this panel do so yes you have to use LatteDoc and you can also recognize it's LatteDoc because the content is casting a shadow on the background which looks in my opinion really nice and it's not something that's implementable in Plasma Panels. So very impressed and really I love the choice of having a left top and right one although I'm I always ask myself in this kind of customizations how is it gonna look like when you maximize a window. Is the is everything gonna defloat? Does the top one become one single panel or does you know everything is outright? I don't know. You do also have transparent windows however and this is a deal breaker for me they are not blurred behind them it's just transparency. If you're curious about how this was achieved the other nicely gave some dot files which by the way you can find in the video description and basically they are the dot configs and sadly enough I am not good enough to just go through the configs and understand everything so I tried to get something from the images but you can just copy paste the files and in theory that should work. It's probably Kvantum a Kvantum style so you probably need Kvantum to be installed but we don't know because the other didn't say so so anyway really good 9 out of 10. This is the third one basically we go back to the old classics quite literally and I mean what do what should I say about this one it's impressively done like honestly if you give it to me I would never be able to recognize that it is indeed Kiri Plasma. In fact I'm looking at it I actually have basically no proof that it is actually Kiri Plasma maybe somebody just I don't know. Dolphin is Dolphin as you can see but it doesn't look like Dolphin but I think we can trust the author so this is just impressive how was this done so firstly the window decorations are apparently actually done by the author of this post how do I say this they are called X Boomer they are actually called X Boomer. The font is Microsoft sans serif the wallpaper answer surprisingly enough is bliss by Microsoft and impressive impressively enough there is also a GTK theme that you know ports this look to GTK as well if you are a fan of this for some reason which is called XP professional. Finally the icons are made by Boomerang artwork and they are called Windows XP unsurprisingly enough which brings me to the next one which is actually one of the most upvoted post in Unix porn with Kiri Plasma in it it's called what have I done and it looks like this and yes what have you done so this looks like Windows I think so I can immediately recognize the fact that on the bottom left we have a tied menu as a widget by Zeran which is an awesome widget even if you're not trying to replicate Kiri Plasma by the way I've used it for years and it's just good and then of course we have this style that makes everything looks like Windows 11 and you do also have this fluent-ish look for the Plasma theme I think it could be a bit more transparent when those 10 in the last versions was actually quite transparent nonetheless it brings the look home so what's what's going on here we have details so the Windows decorations are called Windows K10 the icon pack is Windows icons unsurprisingly enough the theme of the application is a QT curve which is not Kvantum I think it's another SVG thingy I've never actually tried it to be honest I think it's an SVG thingy so we learn something new every day I guess the cursor is called Win8Cursor and the wallpaper is obviously the one from Microsoft nice next one this one is called Closest proprietary shit copy and it looks like Windows 11 I mean I put Windows XP I put Windows 10 I add to put Windows Windows 11 and I'm actually quite impressed by this one now the bottom panel does not require LightDoc actually you can just do that with a normal Plasma panel you can just use two spacers it works I've worked on it actually the widget is for the start menu is a custom one made just to look like the Windows 11 one and it's called it's called I don't know I don't know you can find it on the KD store I'm such a professional YouTuber interestingly enough the theme for the applications is not something made to look like Windows 11 at all but rather it's Lightly which is I think the best non-breeze theme out there that actually implements this stuff directly in C++ instead of using some kevantum thingy that actually loads SVGs so Lightly is a very good theme that you should try out given the chance and wow the Plasma theme is WE 10x I don't think it's the best one for replicating the look of Windows but we'll get there the icons are called Windows 11 obviously obviously but that's that's it that was all the Microsoft stuff that I had to show today let's get back to the actual KDPLASMA stuff but I mean if I talk about the wildest KDPLASMA customizations I have to include being able to just replicate other operating systems like it was nothing so let's talk about this one so this looks cool first of all the background is the wallpaper I mean is very good like I'm actually impressed usually they're like good but this one is so colorful and vibrant I just love it you have a normal dock on the bottom you have tiling you know normal stuff actually kind of what really made it for me is that the top panel as you can see has all the normal stuff but each icon is actually has actually a background color which is not something that you can find on a normal plasma panel and something that I didn't know you could implement in lat.k either so I was like how what so I tried to look for the comments I'm not 100% sure on the explanation that was given there but if I understood this correctly it looks like they have a normal KDPLASMA panel on top and then on top of that they have put one latte dock panel for each icon so all the icons that you see there on the top are actually individual latte dock with you know a custom background color which is quite original like when I saw the comment I was like no you didn't no you didn't so you have put like 10 latte dock panels on top is that it so this is wild this totally classifies as a wild customization so congrats congrats nothing to say what about this one then well this one I think does a lot of things right so it's not wild but it looks so good like so good first of all we have the full screen up menu but it just doesn't look like it's the default one yes it has blur but all the icons are like big and fill the space of the window that looks so good what we just is this it's it doesn't say it no come on why does nobody say what oh yes here okay so apparently the up launcher is custom and it's not available on the store the original poster quite literally just put a google drive link to download it fair enough fair enough then you have the login screen which has the arc logo arch logo arc arch linux logo and then you know that login screen with name and user with username and password on the left and just everything else blur this this is beautiful I don't know what else to say I love this can I can I have this then we have this one which is very bold and again what really made me include this one is how this person does panels so we've got one on the bottom with the normal stuff we could say so task manager up launcher I think yes and the system tree and then we have a next one on the top so we have clock and day at the center on the left we have activities or virtual desktops I'm not sure we can tell them apart and then on the right we've got CPU GPU CPU and power options so I actually love this double panel layout and then of course we've got transparent windows with blur with without blur no there's no blur no likely enough it's very easy to turn on the blur but should be enabled by default very sad to see that it's disabled so how was this done the plasma style is alpha black and by the way this is extremely important I will actually talk about alpha black a lot in a video dedicated to customizations from like tips from me to customize plasma and then it uses the papyrus icons which is a great choice like those are very good icons the application style is indeed kevantum it's called sweet mars again I think turning on blur is just an option in kevantum or you can use a k-wing script whatever and everything else is pretty much sweet mars so I love the style finally we get one with a lot of blur finally finally it's never enough blur and I actually remember this when I first saw this and that has inspired me a lot to do like stuff and such this just looks I mean come on how would you not want this and the coolest thing in my opinion is that dolphin is customized so that all the toolbar options are on the left instead of the top and it just looks so cool so 10 out of 10 this one looks gorgeous just come on the kevantum style is a custom made by the author it's called akava kev and yeah I mean go ahead install it it's beautiful last one the last one I found is this one which I think that does colors beautifully like okay blur and is nice and everything but sometimes pastel colors can just do the trick we have a top floating panel which I think is latte yes it is latte but this one could actually be a plasma panel there's nothing special about latte in this case and you've got a clock on the right which is the wrong place to put a clock should always be in the center name of the name of the application to the left and possibly also a menu bar to the left and then to the center the system tray which is again the wrong place to put the system tray the system tray right clock center gotcha okay the application style is yet again lightly which is the same one I've talked for the windows 11 customization the launcher is called albert the one in the center it's basically an hud for everything it works good enough nowadays kd plasma have their own with control alt i i think it's called it's the good shortcut but i mean so now what you're going to tell me is a which one do you like the most for me obviously it's the first one although the blue one is also pretty nice and b you're gonna tell me what you would like to see if you're into customizations how like what specifically would you like to see in a video regarding customizations because i'm preparing one i've got a bunch of stuff put together this is an intro video and you know i really wanted to ask this question first what do you want to see in our customers just what do you want to see in a customization video let me know