README.md

material-decoration or breeze enhanced

Material-ish or breeze enhanced window decoration theme for KWin.

Locally Integrated Menus

This hides the AppMenu icon button and draws the menu in the titlebar.

Make sure you add the AppMenu button in System Settings > Application Style > Window Decorations > Buttons Tab.

TODO/Bugs (Issue #1):

• Open Submenu on Shortcut (eg: Alt+F)
• Display mnemonics when holding Alt

Upstream LIM discussion in the KDE Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375951#c27

Installation

Binary package

• Arch/Manjaro (AUR):
  Install the material-kwin-decoration-git AUR package.
  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/material-kwin-decoration-git/

• openSUSE:
  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:trmdi/material-decoration

sudo zypper ar obs://home:trmdi trmdi
sudo zypper in -r trmdi material-decoration

Building from source

Build dependencies:

• Ubuntu:

sudo sed -i 's,^# deb-src,deb-src,g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt build-dep breeze kwin

Download the source:

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration.git
cd material-decoration

Then compile the decoration, and install it:

• Ubuntu:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../kwin-style-material-breeze-enhanced*.deb

• Others:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
sudo make install

Select Material in System Settings > Application Style > Window Decorations.

To test changes, restart kwin_x11 with:

QT_LOGGING_RULES="*=false;kdecoration.material=true" kstart5 -- kwin_x11 --replace

Configure

Select the theme in window decorations page.

In the Titlebar Buttons page settings tab add the Application Menu "button" to the titlebar as below

Update

On 2020 June 18, the kdecoration id was changed from zzag to zren. You will need to re-select Material in System Settings > Application Style > Window Decoration. KWin will fallback to Breeze if you forget to do this.

Building from source

First navigate to the source directory, and git pull recent changes.

cd ~/Downloads/material-decoration
git pull origin master --ff-only

Then re-run the install instructions.

Credits:

material-decoration, BreezeEnhanced that is based on BreezeBlurred which in turn is based on Breeze.