Konsave lets you save, apply and share Linux desktop theme customisations

KDE, especially, is known for its amazing themes and theme customisations. With that can come lots of tweaking, and then forgetting how to get back to what you really liked. Or maybe you want to share that fantastic theme combination that you got right with friends.

Konsave helps do all of this very simply and effectively. I do like that all its options are logically named like -r for remove, -l for list, etc. So, although it is command line driven, it is really easy to use.

It officially supports KDE Plasma, but can be used on all other Linux desktop environments too. It is an open-source application written in Python.

See https://github.com/Prayag2/konsave
#Blog, #linux, #opensource, #technology, #themes

Stylus is a desktop browser extension that applies better looking styles to your favourite websites

Stylus injects its own CSS into targeted pages and therefore makes you able to override the present design of a webpage. If you know CSS, you can write and create your own styles. Otherwise, you can just install styles by other authors from userstyles.org (USO). You can also search for styles for the current site on USO from within the Stylus extension.

Stylus browser extension is available for Chrome, Firefox and Opera desktop browsers. Note that Stylus is a fork of the Stylish extension. I tried initially to install Stylish, but once it said it wanted to track every single website I visited, it was quickly deleted. Stylus is privacy respecting and open-source software. Not “ish”, but “us”, as in “us” the actual users, is how Stylus terms it. The extension is being actively maintained and updated.

What I like about Stylus is that you just go to any website and then click on the extension icon for it to quickly search and show you if there are some styles for it (there is no download, save, then import). It is also pretty easy to extend a style by editing it, and you have a choice of your own cloud services you can sync it to (I use two different browsers, so this works to sync the styles between them). It also has an automatic update for the styles.

I see numerous sites are supported such as Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Discord, Lemmy, Mastodon, X, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, MeWe, and many more. I discovered this extension when I was looking for something to dynamically resize the column widths for the Mastodon site.

See https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
#Blog, #opensource, #styles, #technology, #themes

#Best #Amiga #Mega #demos 2017 - 2022 #Music #Mix - #Weena_CN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVrr3AwfVgA

The best Amiga #Megademos from 2017 to 2022

Beam Riders by Haujobb Ghostown
Brutalism by Capsule
Elude - Rise And Shine
Focus Design - Storm Rider
#Haujobb - Signals
Kick The Sofa by Focus Design
PEEK by Spaceballs
#Spaceballs - Makt
The Electronic Knights - Hologon
Transhuman_Pachinkoland - The Electronic Knights
Unique - Origins
Unique - singularities
Zener Drive - Amiga 500 by Altair

You can #download all #Demos here:
http://www.demoscene.ru/

#Commodore Amiga 500 600 1000 1200 1500 2000 2500 3000 4000 #CDTV and #CD32
Commodore Amiga #Monitor 1930 1935 1936A 1940 1942 1950 and 1960

What is a Amiga Demo or Megademo

The Commodore Amiga was a popular #personal #computer that was known for its #advanced #graphics and #sound #capabilities. One of the ways that users of the Amiga #demonstrated these capabilities was through the #creation of #demos, which were short #programs that #showcased the system's #audio and #visual capabilities.

MegaDemos, also known as demo #collections, were a type of Amiga demo that combined multiple smaller demos into a larger #package. These collections typically included several different demos with varying #themes and #styles, and were often designed to be impressive showcases of the Amiga's capabilities.

MegaDemos were usually created by groups of demo #programmers and #artists who collaborated to create the demos, and they often competed with other groups to see who could create the most impressive demo. These #competitions were known as demo parties, and were popular among Amiga enthusiasts in the 1980s and 1990s.

Some famous MegaDemos include the "Unreal" and "State of the Art" demos by the demo group "The Silents," and "Hardwired" and "9 Fingers" by "Spaceballs." These demos were known for their impressive visuals, music, and animations, and were popular among Amiga users and demo enthusiasts.

MegaDemos played an important role in the early demo scene and helped to showcase the power of the Amiga's advanced graphics and sound capabilities. Today, they are still enjoyed by retro gaming enthusiasts and are seen as an important part of the history of the Commodore Amiga computer.

#Stargate #Movies and #Series #Soundtrack #Medley - #TeeVees #Greatest

Music Written and Conducted by #DaveArnold and #JoelGoldsmith.
Intermixed and in no particular rigid order are:

Stargate: The Movie
Stargate: SG-1 Children of the Gods Movie
Stargate: SG-1 Series
Stargate: Atlantis Series
Stargate: The Ark of Truth Movie
Stargate: Continuum Movie
Stargate: Universe Series

Apart from the Main #Themes, and Incidental Music, I have also mixed in:

Ra's Theme
Apophis Theme
Goa'uld System Lords Theme
The Jaffa Theme
Stargate Command Theme
The Replicator Theme
The Wraith Theme
The Ori Theme
The Teal'c Theme
The Nox Theme
The Asgard Theme
The Jack and Sam Love #Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD4aok65AXQ
#music #musique

Bored of Flat Gnome Desktop UIs? Check Out Skeuos GTK Theme

Ever find yourself wishing your GTK theme had a bit more depth to it?
If so, check out the Skeuos GTK theme by Daniel Ruiz de Alegría. His sumptuous skin skewers modern expectations by embracing the bevels, drop-shadows, and gradients most modern themes actively avoid.

The result is a confident look with real visible visual hierarchy to it. Buttons look like buttons, toggles look like toggles, and focused elements have clear presence — you won’t mistake a label for an action while using this theme.

Even if you don't use Gnome, it is well worth having a browse through the latest theme releases for your desktop, as the last year has produced some great looking themes (especially dark) which gives your desktop a whole new look and feel.

See Bored of Flat UIs? Check Out Skeuos GTK Theme - OMG! Ubuntu!

#technology #themes #gnome #desktopUI

Bored of flat themes? Check out this non-flat GTK theme for Linux desktops, including GNOME and Xfce. It's called Skueos and it's beautiful – check it out!

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https://gadgeteer.co.za/bored-flat-gnome-desktop-uis-check-out-skeuos-gtk-theme

My first messing with #themes, #stylesheets or #diaspora #css.

This is a #HiDPI display and diaspora default fonts are 2.3 mm high. Not friendly. So I went out and tried to play with it. Since I don't know how to make a new style reliably, I started to mess up Egyptian Blue.

app/assets/stylesheets/color_themes/egyptian_blue/_style.scss:

/** tweak font **/
$font-size-base: 18px !default;
$font-size-small: 16px !default;

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Belleza|Signika+Negative&subset=latin-ext');
$font-family-sans-serif: 'Belleza', sans-serif;
/* Belleza, 'Signika Negative' */
$font-family-base: $font-family-sans-serif;

So raised the font size, used a pretty font lazyly pulled from google webfonts (well, actually, two fonts, but didn't use SignikaNegative now), and set the base fonts to Belleza face.

After changing the file I had to recompile it with
RAILS_ENV=production time bin/rake assets:precompile
and supposedly the pod immediately would use it. Not for me though, so I had to restart it. @Dennis Schubert said that it may be enough to restart Unicorn, somehow. ;-)

I am pretty happy with the results. If you're the user of diasp.grin.hu try to change to the Egyptian Blue theme. ;-)