material-decoration VS unity8

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

Yes....finally ported to Debian FROM Ubuntu. The whole reason it was named Lomiri is that people had a problem with the Unity8 name. Aticle is sort of clickbait-ey. So you can look at the 3 months worth of work on Debian or you can look at the 5+ years worth of work while it was on Ubuntu . Even the website is Ubuntu specific. However seeing how Ubuntu is a derivative from Debian, most things should work.

Https://lomiri.com links to https://github.com/ubports/unity8 and this repository is accessible.

Lomiri DE Components: 80%

i this you linked to the wrong unity8 ... https://lomiri.com/ is the renamed unity8 that is used in the ubuntu touch phones now ubports phones

Unity. Yes, it's still around (now going by "unity8" and maintained and developed by UBports now instead of Canonical but it's still the same DE we all know and hate er love). Obv not my cup of tea so I'm not very knowledgeable about it so could be way off but who knows, maybe we'll get a Unity lover here and they can chime in. github

Probably not. There are two projects that are continuing the development of Unity though. Mind you that these are in name only since neither are being built off of Unity7. The first is Lomiri. It is being developed by UBports. The second is UnityX. It is being developed by the same people who maintain the Ubuntu Unity Remix.

Lomiri

Not sure, but I think it rebranded as lomiri, and their webpage claims it isn't ready for desktop use yet. There's also links to their github there, if you want to have a look.