The popular GTK theme was ported for Plasma 5 desktops

Sep 22, 2017 15:34 GMT  ·  By

Good morning! It's time to beautify your KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, and we have just the perfect theme for that as it looks like the popular Adapta GTK theme was recently ported to Plasma 5.

As you are aware, the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment uses Qt5 technologies, and while there are some tools to make GTK apps look great on Plasma 5, you can't use GTK themes per se. Right now, Adapta appears to be one of the most popular GTK themes, and you can now finally use it on your KDE Plasma 5 desktop.

The Papirus development team took care of the porting of the popular Adapta GTK theme for KDE Plasma 5 desktops, and they also managed to add some extra things to make your experience even better than if you were running a GTK-based desktop environment, such as GNOME or Xfce.

In port's GitHub repository, you'll find a theme for the Aurorae engine, color schemes for the Konsole terminal emulator app and Plasma Desktop, skins for the Yakuake drop-down terminal emulator, themes for the Kvantum SVG-based theme engine, Plasma Look-and-Feel Settings and desktop theme, and a nice wallpaper.

 Here's how to install the Adapta theme on KDE Plasma 5

If you're using Kubuntu or an Ubuntu-based distro that runs a recent KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, you can easily install the Adapta theme by installing the dedicated PPA from Papirus. All you have to do is to open a terminal emulator, such as Konsole, and run the following two set of commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --install-recommends adapta-kde
If you use Arch Linux or OpenSuSE, you can find the new Adapta KDE theme in the AUR and OBS repositories, respectively. If you use another distro not mentioned above, you can rely on the official Adapta KDE Installer, which you can download using the following command in a terminal emulator. You can choose the new theme in settings. Have fun! wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/adapta-kde/master/install.sh | sh