I use the default breeze light on plasma. Most themes are broken or just too much. Breeze is great
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Icon theme : Papirus
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Shell and GTK theme : Yaru Dark ( the ubuntu darkmode one )
For cursors, i use the default Adwaita. Even though i shifted from ubuntu to arch 7 years ago, i always liked the orangish theme of ubuntu.
I miss when Ubuntu was brown.
I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.
That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.
I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.
When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.
Adapta-gtk with Papirus icons, because i like clear lines and less optical clutter.
I would like Materia too, but that goes actively against my choice to have some transparency in Whiskermenu.
I'm using EndeavourOS XFCE, but with two things on top:
- Nightfox Dusk BL GTK theme
- Tela Purple Dark icon theme
I think these two work really well together
Icon theme : Papirus Theme: Catppuccin Macchiato Cursor: Catppuccin Dark
As you can see I enjoy the catppuccin colorscheme for its variety.
I used the Sweet-KDE color scheme for years on KDE Plasma, but recently I've been converting everything to Catppuccin Macchiato. Default icons and cursors.
I use bibata modern cursor + papirus icon theme
Numix icon theme Catppuccin for GTK Apple Cursor
Buuf cursor https://store.kde.org/p/1249129/ because I like a cursor that is good looking and easy to see (unlike the default camouflaged dark cursor) and it fits with Buuf icons https://store.kde.org/p/1305826/
I'm using a dark Kvantum theme that I customized with dark red highlights.
That almost makes me want to try KDE again.
KDE Plasma 5
- Global theme: Win7OS
- App style: Oxygen
- GTK theme: Windows10
- Colours: Win7OS
- Window Decorations: Expose Air
- Fixed font: MesloLGS Nerd Font 10pt
- Icons: Windows 7 Ultimate 7600
Good standard layout. None of that panel on the left nonsense.
Nordic dark curser, and compact dark breeze on sway wm
Dracula.
I would like to try out Dracula pro, but it is behind a pay wall ://.. There should be a demo.
yeah, its at least only a one-time payment (considering how much i have used the colorscheme i dont mind), plan to pick it up during cybermonday one day. I would assume there is no way to enforce the demo (likely no DRM which is also good)
Yes, and I am not against paying for the work of others, of course. Though I do find the theme a bit too expensive and am out of funds right now. Perhaps in the future. Though I have tried many themes in the past and ended up not liking theme. Paying for a theme and then not liking/using it is a bit.. Hard to swallow..
But yes, it is a one time payment. Can you imagine if even themes start being subscription based? 5usd/month to use a fucking theme.. We are not that far off hahah
yeah, that i understand. am there too hence why I havent bought it yet, it's hard to justify a color palette when there are more pressing uses for your money. If and when I do buy the pro theme it would be more to support the creator than for the pro color scheme [a thank you for the long years of use], that way cant be upset if i dont like it :D
RIGHT! that would be insane, with [traditional] subscriptions I could stomach it if creators were getting paid instead of some corporate jackoff buying another yatch.
I really like the Mint Y icons, they're kinda round with soft colours.
Theme: depends. I'm rocking Gnome on my laptop, so something like Otis looks good in it. Kripton or Jasper (what I typically use in XFCE) also look nice regardless of DE IMO. Just depends, but mostly, it's a dark theme so my already meh eyes are spared a flashbang. Very original, I know.
Icons: Gruvbox Plus. Dunno, just always kinda feel it. Guess I like the designs? Also love me some Win10Sur and Reversal Icons.
Cursor: Bibata, typically. Oreo Cursors, if i feel like adding more pazazz and color...which is most of the time, honestly (also helps make my mouse easy to find. Not that my desktop is cluttered it's just nice to immededly know where it's at with a glance).
Icon: WhiteSur
Cursor: Bibata
Theme KDE(+ Lightly): Catppuccin Macchiato teal (Mocha for terminal)
Catppuccin looks nice and it's also available for other apps, I even use Catppuccin for Lemmy.
De: KDE Plasma Theme: Breeze AlphaBlack Cursors: BreezeX Black
The default breeze-dark is good enough for me with papirus dark icons and breeze-neutralcursors.
Edit: oh also I change the accent color to #cc8899 and the window decorations to just the x to close. I use gestures to interact with windows.
I'm kind of rocking my own colourscheme, based around 4 colours: #467b96 as primary, #889fa7 as secondary, #dfdfdf for white, and a mix of #696969 #282c34 and #343434 for shades of gray and black, with #282c34 being the primary background colour I stick with. I also use some shades of my primary and secondary colours from time to time. It looks really good with the Arc-Darkest GTK theme and Sardi-Flat-Arc as an icon theme. Alternatively, I've looked into papirus with blue as a folder colour, but I prefer Sardi-Flat-Arc.
Edit: Most other colours come from either the doom-one colourscheme or from the terminal colourscheme for Alacritty from ArcoLinux.
. I frequently swap between XFCE and Gnome, and it works very nicely on both. I like the big square window buttons, like how windows does it, because it makes it easier to click rather then a small circle like most themes. Also I just like the look better.
I use Plasma with Breeze Dark theme and icons and adwaita cursors. Boring but works for me.
For Gnome I use adw-gtk3 on automatic day/night switching because it makes everything look nice and uniform.
I prefer Tela icons to Papirus as they're less cartoony.
Theme: any Nordic dark theme Icons: Papirus, it just can’t be beat Cursor: Do people actually care enough to change it? They’re all kinda same-y
I can't remember my icon pack rn, but I use and love the cursor pack from Mint as I am not a huge fan of the mouse stem. (The one from Peepin is also really great)
The theme I use for my apps is just gtk4 (with gtk4 for gtk3) and Grandiance on wich I put the same color palette than the material you apps on my phone so the feel is consistent between devices
- theme: yaru
- cursor: quintom snow
KDE with Tela icons, Breeze cursor and Nordic theming. I experimented with a few different themes with the Nord colorscheme, but it seems like Nordic is still the best looking and most consistent.
Does nord ever feel too low-contrast for you? I recently switched from nord to one dark for that extra bit of contrast. It makes it easier to read on those long coding hauls
Literally the only reason I don't use Nord. I love it in theory but I find it quite hard to read.
Dracula for shell/wm theme and papirus-dark for icons
Icons: Tela Dark
Cursors: default Gnome
Theme: default Adwaita dark theme
Not an icon theme exactly, but Milosz Wlazlo's Basket Monsters, which I originally picked up off kdelook sometime around 2007, are old friends that I use to represent my machine's various hard drives. I just find them amusing, I guess.
- Colloid GTK Theme (Colloid-Dark)
- Papirus (Papirus-Dark)
- Adwaita Cursor Theme
I used the Equilux GTK theme for years but it's been abandoned since 2018 and GNOME has changed a lot since then. I switched to Colloid and it didn't take much to tweak it to my liking, mainly reducing the size of the titlebar and panel.
On my desktop I use Gnome with Arc-Dark everywhere. On my laptop, I use LabWC with a custom one-dark theme that I wrote. Oh, and Phinger cursors on both
Bonny-global
The only correct answer is Qogir Dark with Papirus Icon Theme and breeze cursors
Xfce with desert teal blue. Icons is Moka Icon theme.