You will need most of the apps i mentioned in my previous post for that, that will give you something pretty close to Hyprland (a lot of Hyprland setups actually just use these apps) but i don’t think there is a guide for it.
Krohnkite for tiling, Pywal/Material for theme switch, Panel Colorizer for the tray/docks, kvantum for the windows, the rest is up to your taste
No, over here at least it always applied to the cars.“Rice Burner” because it started in Japan, It was a bit of a derogatory term but not racist as you can’t be racist to cars. Then as the hobby caught on, it just became ricing.
I have no idea what the Gnome launcher is but,
if you right click on your Start icon and on Alternatives you will have a couple choices of launcher, one being Kickerdash which is a full screen app drawer a bit like the screenshot above (can’t remember the keybind to open it, F2 maybe ?).
Plasma Drawer is probably a better choice, easier to personalize, better looking and more convenient to use.
You can also use Krunner, with Alt+Space, really convenient, lots of functionalities, really powerful with it’s addons, my favourite on KDE.
And then you can always use Rofi, which can give you a lot of convenient launcher menus like this :
The downside being that you will have to configure it yourself (not that complicated, plus a lots of premade config are available on the web)
So again, no idea what the Gnome counterpart is but you should be able to get something pretty similar. (again, Plasma Drawer is probably the best solution)
Edit: Can’t read either, @MyNameIsRichard had the correct answer …
I am not a deep ricer, but I am very passionate about customising my system. It is what brought me to Linux. I used to be more heavily into themes, but I mostly use KDE defaults now, as I like to see small changes they make, e.g. the addition of an actual dolphin to the dolphin icon. I have time added to my Firefox. No time on toolbar. Toolbar set to display above windows and to fit to content. I used to have time on toolbar with it set to display above video games, but I stopped when I started playing ancient video games, as they don’t take focus from my mouse, so I’d end up clicking the toolbar unintentionally.
Post your results when you figure out what you want to do. I remember there is something that looks like Hyprland for KDE, but I don’t remember the name. I used it for a while, then got bored. I am more of a minimalist, as you may see.
On the Unixporn subreddit, people post screen capture of their desktop and sometimes they share their configuration files in the comments, it could be a good way to learn.
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You are right. I’m not the enemy of “eye candies”. I am not that good to make beautiful desktops either, unfortunately. I try keeping it minimal, functional (for my needs) and somewhat aesthetically pleasing.