VistaThemePlasma

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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:

Arch Linux x64 and other Arch derivatives
Plasma 6.6.4, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, Qt 6.11.0
96 DPI scaling, single monitor
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

Very Cool projects that you should check out

Geckium by AngelBruni
Aero UserChrome by Souris (Geckium in combination with Aero UserChrome works well with AeroThemePlasma and VistaThemePlasma)
AeroThemePlasma by WackyIdeas
Ice2K.sys by 0penrc
Sevulet by snailatte