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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.

Details

External ID
1378986831
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
sirca-shell
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 21, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
46
Upvotes percentile
0.8060466307968229
Tags
desktop-shell, kde, kde-plasma, kwin, linux, plasma, qml, ricing, unixporn, wayland
Fetched at
Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
developer utilities and gaming mods
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
top bar and dock for kde plasma 6 on wayland
Manually corrected
False

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 — 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #17 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.

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