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