Hello Dr460nizers! 
Since our latest release in March we’ve been working on testing various theming changes, either offered as defaults, choices or replacements of existing visual gizmos.
The goal is to keep the 
Dragon doing what it does best (visually speaking): dark, blurred and eye candy. As well as trying to add some useful features.
This thread has only ONE purpose in mind: discuss about those below provided changes and take feedbacks.
It is not intended to take note of hundreds of other possible changes to include, as there would be no end to the thread and also no release of an upgraded theme cuz there would be too much to look into. 
Which is why we are focusing on those here.
All of the proposed changes are already available through garuda-dr460nized-git package.
More on that and how to install later.
Here are the proposed changes, split into 2 categories:
MAIN CHANGES
- New SDDM Theme!
Called Dr460nized-Sugar-Daddy, it’s based… no wait, that doesn’t sound right. Dr460nized-Sugar-Candy, there we go!, based on the popular Sugar-Candy SDDM Theme. - New Dr460nized-Rounded rounded Window Decorations!
Based on various themes and customized to fit Dr460nized with minimal color changes. You will notice a grey Titlebar/Borders for Windows that are not on focus, in order to make it easier to distinguish what’s in focus than not. This feature (distinguishing on focus windows) is becoming more and more trendy and there are various solutions to make it work. Let’s try this one!
SMALLER CHANGES
- Completely redesigned Clock!
More and more people confirm that the top center location for a clock is where it should be for efficient eye contact and movement, as well as providing a very elegant Top Panel look. It is now, with dr460nized-git, and on top of that we added the Date, pretty much like Gnome does and maybe some others. To accommodate “smaller” screen resolutions (like the popular 1920 width), a bit of space was needed to clear the Window AppMenu applet. Some rare applications (we only found VirtualBox so far!) spit a big menu and depending on your Font size it could interfere with the new BetterInlineClock applet. No worries, all it does is push the clock a bit more to the right for the menu to use the required space. As mentioned we did not find an application causing this other than VirtualBox. And VBox does it only when its Main window is on focus, showing then the menu. That Main window is not used much when using VBox as you are rather using the VM’s Window, that’s what the application is meant for anyway! We believe so far it’s an acceptable situation. - Wallpaper Blur is back!
A new Wallpaper plugin has been added which blurs the wallpaper when it is out of focus.
HOW TO INSTALL
Firstly, you need to understand SDDM Theme is pre-login, so it applies to all users (or none, logically speaking as no one is yet logged in). For that matter, it requires Administrative priviledges to be applied, therefore it will NOT automatically be applied when you re-apply Dr460nized Global Theme. You have to do it manually.
EDIT: This seems to have been fixed, once you apply Global Theme it should automatically apply the SDDM Theme.
Once that is understood, there are various ways to test those changes. The deeper you know about Linux the more you can imagine ways (take that, MSFT!). Simply put if you
paru -S garuda-dr460nized-git
it will replace the standard garuda-dr460nized and then you re-apply Dr460nized Global Theme + manually apply the new Dr460nized Sugar Candy SDDM Theme, should you wish to test it.
Yes you will lose all your custom visual changes as it will refresh to Dr460nized defaults.
If you want to avoid that, and I highly suggest you do, then here are just a couple ways of working around this:
- Install in VM
- Install in a second SSD
- Install on a second machine
- Create another user with administrative priviledges, login that user, apply Dr460nized Global Theme
and manually apply SDDM Theme.You can easily without issues re-apply the standard Sweet SDDM Theme any time, there should be no risk here.
To revert everything back,
paru -S garuda-dr460nized
, re-apply the Global Theme and Sweet SDDM Theme. This will get you back to non-git Dr460nized defaults, NOT reverting to your own customization).
IMPERFECTIONS
There are no bugs! Just imperfections.
We are already aware of some of them. For instance:
- The color choices of the SDDM Theme are not perfect, something’s a little bit off, but maybe not, which is why we need your feedback.
The SDDM Theme seems to be a little slow to entirely display, hopefully that is just the case on the machines used for testing by us.- The rounded Windo Decos do not have round internal drawn windows (yet, if possible ever) so looking closely at the corners you see a corner square inside a corner circle, which is meh…
- The rounded Windo Decos sometimes, on some very specific windows/apps (again VBox main window!), display the super long and very famous “KDE Window Deco corner bug” and the color of the squared corner varies also (thanks to KDE for keeping this spicier every time).
- If you manually create a Plasma Top Panel using the Dr460nized layout from the context menu, it will not include the changes for now, only once we are satisfied with all changes it then will.
- EDIT: The Wallpaper Blur Plugin does not seem to automatically apply, leaving you with a black wallpaper, which you can change of course. Under troubleshooting.
HOW DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
Let us know what you think!
the next theme with new Dragonized + Plasma 6
