ChromeOS plasma theme

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Hello Good People,

I like the ChromeOS plasma theme. I managed to install it. Looks great. However, the clock on the right hand side is too small and the start menu icon is too small. When I go into edit mode, I notice that the top and bottom edges of the panel are thicker that on other themes and I can see that this is what is restricting the height on the clock etc. I can’t change this in the edit panel setting but maybe I can tweak some file somewhere. Any help appreciated. I am on plasma 6.1.5

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I’m not sure what theme you’re using, but you’ll probably have to reduce the margin in the panel background svg.

Here’s an example with some chrome os theme I just downloaded:

Before:

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After reducing the margin:

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Hello. That’s great but the background svg is compressed (svgz). How do I approach that? Uncompress it? Extract it?

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?? Not sure what you mean. Could you point me to that theme?

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The plasma theme is called ChromeOS KDE. If I look in /local/share/plasma/desktopthemes I can see the folder and I can see the .svg backround file you refer to, but it is compressed (the end is /svgz as you can in the screenshot…Is that the file I need to edit?

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It’s an svg file ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG ). You need to edit it in inkscape ( or some vector editor)

Found some on Utube, maybe it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7VtCAOJD2w

A link to the theme would help cause there are several chrome os kde themes around.

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Ok, the link is: ChromeOs KDE - KDE Store

I have figured out how to use inkscape to open the svg file but which one should I edit?

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As mentioned and in the video, the panel background svg.

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But um…on a sidenote, this theme isn’t quite finished. It should follow the colorscheme, but it doesn’t fully ( see screenshots). There are better chrome os ( what’s in a name) themes out there.

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I figured out finally that it was the widgets folder in the main folder that I needed to change. Altering things using inkscape didn’t have an effect. In the end I just replaced the svg file with one from another theme that didn’t have the excess padding and that worked. It should not be this complicated but I figured itout in the end. Thanks very much for your help.

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I’d be very surprised if a “proper” edit with inkscape wouldn’t change anything. But hey, you’ve got it working. As for the “complicated” part…it’s not. A theme with the right margin height/width is all you need. Some themes are simply not well put together.

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Well I was changing parameters wildly in inkscape and then saving the file and logging out and then back in with no discernible difference but I 've never used inkscape before so I didn’t really know what I was doing. I just mean the whole process of changing themes seems pretty involved. It would be nice to just choose the theme and have it work with one click. It was easier before. Maybe it will be easier again. Anyway, thanks for your help. As always when I have a problem with Linux, I’ve learned something.