Klassy 5.0 released for Plasma 5.27

[paulmcauley]

A final major release for Plasma 5.27 LTS.

Main changes:

• New Presets feature allowing simplified customization:
  

Presets may also be used with Window-Specific overrides

• Extensive new button colour customization options:
  

All button colours may be individually overridden:

• Advanced button behaviour settings for different button states:
  

• Tweaks to icon snapping algorithms for even sharper and more accurate icon rendering in more circumstances.

• "Klassy" and "Klassy dark" icon themes are now auto-generated at all major scale factors on a setting change. There is now no-need to separately install a Klassy icon theme, and the inheritance properties of the icon theme can be set under the "System Icon Generation..." button.

• New Global Themes and colour schemes as an attempt to provide sane KDE defaults:
  

• Superior colouring of system icons when "use system icon theme" is used - KDE SVG CSS colour properties used, with a new "force colourize" option for non-KDE icons using a superior alpha-replacement colourization algorithm.

• Superior multi-monitor rendering of system icons when "use system icon theme" is set.

• New "Redmond 11" built-in icons.

• New "Integrated Rounded Rectangle, grouped" button shape.

• Ability to customize close button width specifically, and ability to set corner radius specifically for a button.

• New active state change animation for buttons.

• Window decoration and button colours are now all cached. Colours for complex button state options now share a common code-path between Window Decoration and Application Style.

• Buttons now only repaint if they have an intersecting paint region

• New command line options for klassy-settings to load/import presets and generate icons. See klassy-settings --help

• Allow titlebar opacity to be overridden when set in colourscheme

• Switching the application palette between a colourscheme with header colours and one without now works (bug from Breeze)

• All relevant updates from Breeze up to Plasma 5.27.11

NB: the config file has moved from ~/.config/klassyrc to a new one at ~/.config/klassy/klassyrc. Your old config file may still be present but many config keys differ between version 4 and version 5.

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This discussion was created from the release 5.0.breeze5.27.11.

[paulmcauley]

For installation instructions see https://github.com/paulmcauley/klassy/tree/plasma5.27?tab=readme-ov-file#installation