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Vistathemeplasma

An alternative shell for KDE Plasma that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows Vista.

Install / Use

/learn @aeroshell-desktop/Vistathemeplasma
About this skill

Quality Score

0/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

README

VistaThemePlasma

Microsoft® Windows™ is a registered trademark of Microsoft® Corporation. This name is used for referential use only, and does not aim to usurp copyrights from Microsoft. Microsoft Ⓒ 2026 All rights reserved. All resources belong to Microsoft Corporation.

Introduction

This is a fork of WackyIdeas' AeroThemePlasma which aims to recreate the look and feel of Windows Vista as much as possible on KDE Plasma, whilst adapting the design to fit in with modern features provided by KDE Plasma and Linux.

VTP is in constant development and testing. So far it has been tested on:

  1. Arch Linux x64 and other Arch derivatives
  2. Plasma 6.6.4, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, Qt 6.11.0
  3. 96 DPI scaling, single monitor
  4. X11, Wayland*

*VistaThemePlasma currently lacks full Wayland support, which may result in Wayland-specific issues.

This software comes "as is" without warranty of any kind. It's always recommended to make backups of your system just in case. I am not responsible for broken systems, please proceed with caution.

GitHub mirror

Installation

See INSTALL.md for a quick install guide.

For the sidebar gadgets, go here.

Credits

Many thanks to the people who helped out by testing and providing some suggestions for certain plasmoids and other stuff. Special thanks goes to WackyIdeas for making the original AeroThemePlasma theme.

Contributors

  • AngelBruni for the SVG Vista taskbar texture
  • ThePhantom for remaking the task item textures and power button glyphs in SVG
  • aeoe for fixing a minor issue with the VistaStart dialog texture
  • furkrn for creating and maintaining the Plymouth theme
  • xodus2002 for the Glass, Pearl and Tinker sound themes from Windows Ultimate Extras

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Screenshots

Desktop

desktop

Start Menu

start_menu start_menu_search start_menu_apps start_menu_openshell

Clock

clock

System Tray

battery network system_tray

Sound Mixer

mixer mixer_expanded

Notifications

notification notification

Desktop Icons

icons

Lockscreen

lockscreen

Alt-Tab Switcher

alt-tab

Colorization

colorization Regular colorization: aeroblur Basic colorization: aeroblursimple Maximized opaque colorization: aeroblur_opaque

Decorations

decorations

Gadgets

gadgets

Librewolf

geckium

User Account Control (Polkit)

uac uac-trusted

Taskbar

vistatasks-contextmenu vistatasks-contextmenu wmptoolbar

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GitHub Stars41
CategoryDevelopment
Updated27m ago
Forks1

Languages

QML

Security Score

95/100

Audited on Apr 7, 2026

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