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A view of the Plasma desktop with the lustrous Shades of Purple them applied.

Julius Enriquez 28/11/202328/11/2023 2 Comments design, free software, KDE, Plasma, themes

Off-Theme Presents: Shades of Purple

In the third installment of Off-Theme, we cover Shades of Purple, a global theme with a rather striking set of shades that sets it apart from many other flat themes.

Animated WebP image showing off the different variants of the Graphite global theme series Graphite Light, Graphite Dark, Graphite Nord Light, and Graphite Nord Dark are shown side-by-side and in order

Linux Inside pling.it Reviews Software Tutorials

Julius Enriquez 14/11/202314/11/2023 design, free software, KDE, Plasma, themes

Off-Theme Presents: Graphite

Grsphite is a global theme that boldly goes for a starkly monochromatic aesthetic and sharp window borders.

Linux Inside pling.it Software Tutorials

Julius Enriquez 07/11/202307/11/2023 design, free software, KDE, Plasma, themes

Off-Theme Presents: Nostrum

Let’s take a look at a global theme that plays both with the old and new to create a rather striking aesthetic.

Screenshot of a highly customised Plasma desktop in violet and orange. It looks better than it sounds, I swear.

pling.it Tutorials

Julius Enriquez 26/10/202330/10/2023 free software, KDE, Plasma, software, themes

Going Off-Theme: The Prologue

KDE has a long and storied history of customisation, allowing people to express themselves freely through the desktop and truly

Abstract photo of a network of cables and hooks.

Free Culture Opinion Social Media Software

Paul 05/11/202214/11/2022 culture, free software, open source, social media, technology

With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).

Opinion rant Software

Paul 02/01/202203/01/2022 accessibility, free software, KDE, linux, open source

Who’s Important

I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?

Free Culture Opinion

Paul 14/08/202114/08/2021 free software, KDE, principles

The Three Laws of FLOSS Projects

A relatively easy way to decide what communication activities are appropriate for your Free Software project.

Activity Report Social Media

Paul 13/05/202013/05/2020 analysis, data, free software, KDE, labplot, popularity contests, promotion, social media, twitter

Popularity Contests & Data Analysis for the Masses

Use freely available sources of data, add the right tools and a bit of simple analysis and you will be able to figure out whether your Free Software project is being adopted at a healthy rate or not. Bonus track: Find out when to post to social media.