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sirca-shell

My own top bar and dock for KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. Popups grow out of the bar, everything is blurred and see-through, light/dark and 7 colours.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 46 upvotes (top 19%) · 1 view

Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • desktop-shell
  • kde
  • kde-plasma
  • kwin
  • linux
  • plasma
  • +4 more

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Could you build this?

No Creating a desktop top bar and dock for KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland requires deep systems programming, knowledge of Wayland protocols (layer-shell), Qt/QML, and KDE internal desktop APIs that AI coding assistants struggle to reliably scaffold or debug.

What it would actually take: This project requires C++, Qt 6, and QML, interfacing with the Wayland `wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1` protocol to manage window positioning and surface blurring (via KWin effect APIs or specialized shaders). The developer must have deep familiarity with KDE Plasma internals, Wayland compositor communication, and Linux desktop environment lifecycle management.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 284 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #48 of 285 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.

  • plasma-2000 · github · 2026-11-07 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • xmb-ps3-theme · github · 2026-10-15 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • redo-of-arch · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • KDEGlance · github · 2026-10-24 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • WandelBar · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • kwi · github · 2026-10-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • omarchy-hotbar · github · 2026-09-12 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Seeker-TV-Launcher · github · 2026-10-22 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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