liquidshellhttps://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/

liquidshell is an alternative to plasmashell

It does not use QtQuick but instead relies on QtWidgets, therefore no hardware graphics acceleration is needed.

Main Features:

  • Wallpaper per virtual desktop
  • No animations, no CPU hogging, low Memory footprint
  • Instant startup
  • No use of activities
  • QtWidgets based, therefore follows widget style from systemsettings
  • Icons are used from your globally defined icon theme from systemsettings
  • Colors are used from your globally defined color theme from systemsettings
  • Can additionally be styled with css by passing the commandline option -stylesheet filename.css (see included example stylesheet.css)
  • uses existing KDE dialogs for most configurations, e.g. StartMenu, Virtual Desktops, Bluetooth, Network
  • One bottom DesktopPanel
  • Desktop Applets
Hugo -- gohugo.iohuRelease 1.9 of liquidshellhttps://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/#1.9https://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/#1.9
  • Added install options (sleep/shutdown after install)
  • Improved EULA handling on package installation
  • Added long format of time and date display to calendar popup
  • Create default folder for storing quicklaunch apps
  • SysLoad widget width depends on CPU count
  • Bugfixes and adjustments to newer KDE components
Release 1.8.1 of liquidshellhttps://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/#1.8.1https://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/#1.8.1 Bugfixes and adjustments to newer KDE componentsRelease 1.8 of liquidshellhttps://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/#1.8https://apps.kde.org/hu/liquidshell/#1.8
  • Notifications show how long they remain open (small animation)
  • Weather Applet shows moon phase
  • Disk Usage Applet watches for mount/unmount to react quicker for update
  • Display improvements in software updates component
  • Added DBUS-Menu support (some apps don't provide own menu but only via DBUS, e.g. MS teams)