Create Plasma Style

[ghost]

KDE has somewhat annoyingly began shifting some icons to the Plasma style. See here:
https://develop.kde.org/docs/extend/plasma/theme/theme-details/

The plasma style is separate from the plasma color scheme as well as the GTK/QT theme, so this does not require a lot of work of colormanager. I would think something the following would basically do everything needed:

if command -v kwriteconfig > /dev/null; then
   kwriteconfig5 --file plasmarc --group Theme --key name NsCDE
fi

The plasma style is a simple directory in

(/usr|~/.local)/share/plasma/desktoptheme/

Phob1an has a good basis:

https://www.opencode.net/phob1an/commonality/-/tree/master/desktoptheme/Commonality

I've gone ahead and started creating some icons for my own usage.
icons.zip
These go in path desktoptheme/NsCDE/icons

My notification icon is colored for Broica. If one converted it to xpm we can we color with colormanager and then convert the xpm to png, run that through base64, and then throw the result into the svg. So far it's the only icon I know of that's colorized, however if one wanted to avoid colorizing icons some creativity in creating new ones can be done.

As for things I haven't made yet I'm using oxygen icons as a fallback:
https://store.kde.org/p/1120624
As oxygen's 3d look fits better with NsCDE than the monochrome flat icons KDE defaults to in my opinion.

If anyone knows a good battery and network indicator icons that fits with CDE (and licensed under a GPL compatible license) I would do the work to make one.

[NsCDE]

Hello @tim78245

Thank you very much for this kwriteconfig and plasma/desktoptheme drop ins for initial setup and color style manager. Icons are nice. I will know how to handle pre-processed notification icons.

I will probably have some time next month to merge this and couple more things. Maybe to have 2.3 ready on summer.

Thanks once again.

[ghost]

Seems like KDE will shift icons back out of plasma style for Plasma 6, making this kind of moot.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/12/how-all-this-icon-stuff-is-going-to-work-in-plasma-6/

Plasma 5 will still be used in Debian for 2 years or so though. Who knows when Plasma 6 will hit.

Something else I've done is I've edited out all the drop shadows Phob1an had in the widgets part of the Plasma style.

Here's what I have so far:
NsCDE.zip
Goes in ~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme

But this part will require color manager.