plasma-manager vs nix-colors

plasma-manager

Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager (by pjones)

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nix-colors

Modules and schemes to make theming with Nix awesome. (by Misterio77)

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443	Stars	435
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8.7	Activity	4.8
3 days ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
Nix	Language	Nix
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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plasma-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of plasma-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
3 projects | /r/NixOS | 6 Dec 2023

Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
Why don't KDE plasma group all .config files in a single directory?
2 projects | /r/kde | 15 May 2023

Plasma-manager solves both backup and sharing.
KDE Plasma 6: “Better defaults”
1 project | /r/linux | 11 May 2023

A dude wrote a tool to configure KDE with Nix. https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager Sadly it's a bit iffy, and settings aren't applied until you relog and other things.
New user switching to NixOS
4 projects | /r/NixOS | 27 Mar 2023

Normally yes with the help of home-manager, but you cannot manage your Plasma configuration declaratively, yet. I think there is an effort for configuring Plasma here, but it is not complete yet and did not get any updates since September so maybe it is abandoned or paused for now? If you are fine with using Gnome, there is a dconf module in home-manager so you can also make your desktop environment reproducible. There is also xfconf module for configuring XFCE if you prefer that but I did not use it so I don't know if it is as good as dconf.
Using KDE with nixos
2 projects | /r/kde | 24 Feb 2023

however, there is the Plasma Manager which should give you similar or even the same experience as GNOME
Rice NixOS?
8 projects | /r/NixOS | 16 Feb 2023

Although I still have to look into plasma-manager
My wife crocheted a NixOS tux for my obsession.
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 16 Jan 2023

As for declarative usage for KDE or Firefox, while I haven't done it personally yet, it is possible by adding extra modules. Home-Manager has config options for Firefox and Plasma Manager, an home-manager module for KDE.
Pretend you're the KDE¹ dictator². What would you do if you were to take the direction of the whole project in your own hands?
6 projects | /r/kde | 8 Jan 2023

Think I'm going to start using plasma manager and maybe try to contribute.
gnome-manager v0.0.1: let's build config abstractions for GNOME
4 projects | /r/NixOS | 29 Dec 2022

I've been using plasma manager for kde, it has a command to dump the current configuration to a nix file which is convenient https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
Customizing KDE from the command line?
1 project | /r/kde | 23 Dec 2022

On NixOS (probably irrelevant for you, but may as well mention it for others) I've been using plasma-manager.

nix-colors

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-colors. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.

Rice NixOS?
8 projects | /r/NixOS | 16 Feb 2023

https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-colors is great to have an easily changeable theme
change my mind
4 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 1 Oct 2022

Well, it gets useful, if you have e.g. a color-theme you want to apply to every application on your system (checkout e.g. https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-colors/). Or if you're doing something otherwise repetitive, you can just abstract it away with a function. Also checkout https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager, it's just super easy to set up a user-application with this (for an overview of possible options: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html)
How do I use an extern file colors dictionary (colors.nix have a dictionary with colors)?
1 project | /r/NixOS | 21 Jan 2022

If you're defining themes to apply to stuff, maybe you'll be interested in cheking nix-colors out
base16.nix - NixOS / home-manager module and a library to theme programs
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 9 Jan 2022

I was aware of Misterio77's nix-colors, before I made base16-nix.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing plasma-manager and nix-colors you can also consider the following projects:

kde-configuration-files - KDE plasma configuration files

home-manager - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee] [Moved to: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager]

nixos-config - Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

nixos-config

base16.nix - Theme applications with your favourite base16 colorschemes in Nix

nixago - Generate configuration files using Nix [maintainer=@jmgilman]

nixos-config - My Personal Nix/NixOS Configuration.

gnome-manager - NixOS module for GNOME configuration

dotfiles

reflex-platform - A curated package set and set of tools that let you build Haskell packages so they can run on a variety of platforms. reflex-platform is built on top of the nix package manager.