Koi VS material-decoration

For everyone wondering about automatically switching to dark mode, I can definitely recommend using koi - at least until the feature has been built into the plasma desktop itself. It's based on time, and as far as I know does not support using light sensors.

This is light-weight alternative to Koi and Ying-Yang. The main difference is in its simplicity and customization of a bash script. It includes a home directory variable file when installed, which can add functionality but also just holds values such as the sunrise delay. Installation is simple and no downloads are needed other than the script.

I can really recommend koi for that purpose. I mean, built-in would be better, but Koi does a really great job, too!

Have you tried Koi?

Koi is nice if you want to be able to switch light/dark themes on the fly, or automatically

For KDE Plasma though, unfortunately, the only automatic way I could find to accomplish this is by using this project on github which is not supported on every distro (although recently added to the OBS).

I know about Koi, Yin-Yang, AutomaThemely, Plasma Theme Switcher and the widget I was talking about in last comment, Dynamic global themes. Once I even made a very poorly written and simple script to toggle KDE global themes, gtk themes, konsole colorscheme etc all at once and it barely works but I want to see an officially supported toggle to allow Auto Day/Night theme change in System Settings.

I don't know how much satisfied you are of your scripts but there's Koi which could interest you ;)

Koi (unmaintained): https://github.com/baduhai/Koi

Question, have you considered implementing locally integrated menus like in this decoration https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration ?

There is this project but I am not sure its the best way. It has an Arch and an rpm package, so you dont have to build it yourself.

You don't need empty space for that. GTK lets you drag from anywhere on the headerbar, buttons included. Similarly, the KDE material decorations which implements LIM also lets you drag from the integrated menubar. Buttons don't need to reduce the draggable area at all. Not that I want Plasma to have CSD of course, but having LIM available in official decorations would be nice.

You can get rid of menu bars. Most KDE apps use a hamburger menu by default now instead of a menu bar. Pressing CTRL+M lets you switch between hamburger menu and menu bar in KDE apps. KDE has no CSD tho and that's not something that's going to change, but you can move that hamburger menu to the title bar in window decoration settings. If you use the Material Decorations theme, you can even have your menu bar inside of the title bar. Or you can just use GNOME apps in KDE. That works too. But I mean, you've already said GNOME suits your workflow perfectly, so just keep using that. It doesn't seem like you've got any reason to switch to KDE.

Link to the project's github.

My favorite implementation is locally integrated menus; this Material Decoration theme has it nicely implemented, but unfortunately it doesn't work on Wayland. I hope it'll manage to land in Breeze at some point.

There is a KWin decoration that supports this: https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration

Zren's Material decoration has an option to hide it, Breeze windows decoration doesn't.

might be easier to just remove the title from zren's material decoration then