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Split views looks interesting actually. I have multiple search engines as a way to not search via Google so to search in all of them is useful. And sometimes I just want to search something I read on a page I found on another search so this seems quite convenient for research uses.

I think I will give zen browser a try even if purely just for research uses.

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Give it a try, but it should definitely make it clear that it’s not a fully implement set of features they’ve introduced.

For easy usage of various search engines or minor use cases, they’ve included a sidebar feature. Which could be launched as a mobile web view client. So far it works quite nicely.

So you can open up the side bar for searches. And the query result will be displayed in the mobile web view. Instead of opening the links within the sidebar, the link will be redirected to the main browser window instead as a new tab, the list of results are kept unchanged in the sidebar.

This works, unless the actual website / domain called is actually assigned to a container instance by default.
Which results in a new tab which is actually clueless what to do.

Anyway, as a side note. Maybe it’s worth to open up an specific topic related to Zen. Instead of taking over this one :wink: I’ll do so if there something specific worth discussing.

It’s kind of tricky, you have to get into your color scheme’s style sheet and introduce alpha values to the colors you want to be transparent, such as backgrounds. It doesn’t always work super well but I managed to get some decent results by editing this theme with built-in transparency:
https://store.kde.org/p/2011829

ETA: these are some examples

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It’s really not that simple. I use Gently-Color Plasma Theme to get a decent blur effect. With Dolphin is a bit tricky. I haven’t managed that yet.
I have a transparency effect via window rules, but I can’t get a blur effect

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Have you tried removing the transparency from the window rules? I find it decreases the blur effect drastically

No, I have not. I have 85% inactive and 98% active. This Dolphin window is inactive as it looks on the screen. Blur for konsole has to be set in the konsole settings.

Have you disabled the default blur effect? Also the Betterblur script has to be rebuilt, reinstalled and reenabled every time you update plasma.

I use neither Kvantum nor betterblur kwineffect. I wanted to create all this by editing the color scheme. Therefore window rules and Klassy Application Style and Window Decoration. Highly customazible. I will probably have to edit the dolphinrc somehow so that dolphin also gets blur effect. As soon as I edit the colorscheme, I get dolphin completely transparent but not blurred. But only the sidebar and not the background. This is really very difficult to realize. Somehow I will find a way

That’s the reason why I don’t like working with other people’s scripts. There must be a way, and I will find it, to blur dolphin via the colorscheme.There is no way around the fact that I have to deal with this problem in greater depth.

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Arch with i3 and polybar.
And fastfetch

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Changed everything to light. Dunno what’s terminal color are for better use. I think i’ll stay dark

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Current dual monitor setup on Arch, trying to keep it simple. Don’t worry, I still love EOS.

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Whether it’s Twilight Plasma or Arc Cinnamon, about the only things I like to be on the dark side are the panels and terminal. For me, the terminal must always be semi-transparent and dark.

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I like consistency. If it’s light mode, all of if has to be light. Doing it like that reminds me of Windows.

If I use twilight, the top panel would also go dark. That would be kind of disturbing. With ghently colors everything is a bit blurred. I like it like this. I agree, Konsole must be dark. Fortunately, the background can be blurred

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Forgive me, what I said about twilight. I was totally wrong. Modified light Breeze Colors. Set Global Design to Twilight. No window decoration within Breeze. Not that bad

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Would like to see more !
I’m actually heading in a same direction. Color theme slightly modified from gruvbox.
And I’m contemplating alternatives to Plasma.

Fresh, clean install of EndeavourOS KDE Plasma on my miniPC. No real theming yet. But I configured Konsole with Fish shell, Tide Prompt, custom Fastfetch config.

More to come as I tweak Plasma theme.

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Would you like rice with that. :laughing: :enos_flag:

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This borderless vibe looks blimmin’ great. :ok_hand:

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Thanks buddy :vulcan_salute: .
You need a panel to close or maximize it, otherwise you can use a tiling wm.
The above is very small, 28px. Application Title Bar and Global menu ans some system monitor settings

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