Try klassy window decoration. You’ll have options. Border, outline, shadow…etc
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Thank you. I had no idea that existed. It solves everything I was looking for. I can now easily tell layered windows apart.
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Dear god, a uni-bar. I hadn’t dared to even imagine…
I’ve used that type of setup for over a decade.
It seriously never occurred to me. I was tempted to try it until I remembered that I also use a global menu.
I’ve tried that configuration and it doesn’t work with the uni-bar
IMHO the Global Menu (I couldn’t live without it) works best in most cases if you have an additional second bar - I prefer to have a dock instead of a second panel.
What are all the things you have on it?
I do a single panel with global menu. The task manager is on it too. The system tray is monochrome icons and the task manager icons are color.
Yea, that’s what I do.
Yes, your screenshots also look nice - but at least on smaller laptop screens I had the effect that the Global Menu of some programs is too wide to also keep a task manager in the same panel.
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I use the following widgets on the panel, application launcher, clock, color picker, search, task manager ( on the task manager: Firefox, Konsole, Dolphin, Kate, QOwnnotes, LibreOffice, GIMP, Krita and Strawberry Music Player), Relaxing sounds widget, flameshot, ProtonVPN, and the system tray with some basic stuff shown (quite a bit hidden) So nothing too outstanding.
I highly wish in KDE, we could just share their desktop layout etc in just a single file so that the whole setup is easily shareable 
. That will help tons of users to save the customised desktop and use it right out of the box when needed.
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there is an app called save desktop (never tried yet) , u can save and re use the file
i tried it … its kinda broken and no longer maintained.
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ah my bad never mind then.
with plasma 6 coming maybe someone will fork it.
it would be nice to have an easy way to back up all your plasma preferences.
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I’ve never used it, but isn’t this what konsave does?