[SOLVED] Can Plasma be configured to look and act like Fedora 38's Gnome 44?

[RLynwood]

I love the way each display has its own screen and the screens get shifted around by clicking on the one one wants to make foreground. I'm almost certainly not describing Fedora's behavior right. I don't have it available to play with; I've only watched it a bit on a friend's laptop. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about. I know that that's exactly what happens with Plasma's desktop display and all other distos, maybe all UI computers. I also far prefer Fedora's art to KDE's/Plasma's.

[oshunluvr]

If you upgrade to 23.04 Gnome 44 should be available. IDK if that's something they would backport to 22.04 or not.

[RLynwood]

I have read that, but I don't want to be using Gnome 44;I want to use Plasma, I just want Plasma to act the same as G 44.

[Schwarzer Kater]

It's not "Fedora's GNOME 44" - it's just GNOME 44, as Fedora uses stock vanilla GNOME.

If you don't want to use GNOME itself (which do understand ) you will have to search for e.g.: an Adwaita icon theme, Plasma and GTK styles, an Adwaita color scheme, window decorations, matching fonts, several KWin scripts to mimic the behavior of GNOME 44, you will have to configure your Plasma panels accordingly, etc. …
Perhaps you will have to use Kvantum or Latte Dock too, depending on what is available for your "GNOMIFY" project.
For sure there will be a lot of stuff to be done (possibly more than I listed above).

A good starting point is: https://store.kde.org

Good luck!

[RLynwood]

Wow. Way too complex for me now. I'm far too busy and too old to do all this now. If I were 20 or more years younger, I might very well do that. Thanks for the explanation. That sure puts me in my place: choose one or the other. I'll stick with Plasma.

[arsivci]

You can create something very close by
1- moving the panel to the top
2- adding a 2nd panel vertically on the left.
3- moving task manager to the vertical panel
4- moving the clock to middle on the top panel.
4- auto-hiding the vertical panel
5- setting a hot corner at the top left.

No extras required up to this point.

It is not Gnome 44 exactly but maybe you can find some scripts to further mimic 44.

[RLynwood]

Immediate response: No further comment now. I'll look at these and try to learn more exactly how Fedora has set up Gnome in order to be able to say exactly what the features I want are called. Thanks for the additional thoughts.

[Schwarzer Kater]

There seems to be something in the works to change the overviews to look and act more like GNOME's (probably for Plasma 6), see Nicco's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHyUHdfik0

[RLynwood]

That looks like exactly what I was talking about without knowing the language for describing it. I look forward to its availability. Thanks.