Lightly VS applet-window-buttons

The git repository link for Lightly

The Instructions are in this repo: https://github.com/catppuccin/kde I also had to install Lightly for a better look.

I'm using Artix Linux with KDE Plasma, trying to install a theme named "Red pastel", which requires lightly to work. I've installed lightly, installed red pastel, and my dolphin seems to not react to red pastel properly: folder icons arent red, half of dolphin is not red. Im trying to fix it for a long time alreadly but im out of ideas. Please, help :( Link to red pastel: https://www.pling.com/p/1691426 Link to lightly: https://github.com/Luwx/Lightly

not really a theme but I recently enjoy lightly

The ones I know of are: Aurorae (built-in one), Kvantum (https://github.com/tsujan/Kvantum/tree/master/Kvantum) and Lightly (just a theme https://github.com/Luwx/Lightly). store.kde.org is down (at least I can't access it at the moment), so I've shared github links.

To have something decent you can use lightly

It appears as if lightly has not been updated in quite some time, with lingering PRs.

The plasma theme has a slight transparency. In windows and applications it depends on the style of applications you use, the kvantum theme has transparency, the color-schemes for the breeze style do not have transparency. In the screenshot I am using Lightly and I added transparency to the color-schemes.

My KDE version is 5.24.4 I've installed Lightly from github. Tried different combinations and then installed manually. But none of the methods work. When I try to choose Lightly from System Settings I got error.

Panels (stock plasma panels): Top (left to right): - Default app launcher - applet-window-buttons - applet-window-title - Default Global menu - Default Clock between two Panel spacers - Netspeed Widget (sysfs) - System tray - Virtual desktops pager

My approach: $ git clone https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-buttons.git to my ~/Downloads and run install.sh script

Use this and this one for Windows buttons

- Window buttons

The guy who created latte dock maintains a trio of widgets (https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu, https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-buttons, https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-title) which are just PERFECT for that purpose. They don't require you to run latte, but it helps if you have more than one screen.

Applet window buttons: https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-buttons

Window Buttons Applet

I did not know about Active Window Control. The scroll wheel to max/minimize feature is really handy. I am using another simple widget called Window Buttons though. It is not feature rich unlike Active window control but it looks good and serves my basic purpose.