u/Impossible-Money2745

Hey

I’ve been trying to give my desktop more of a Life is Strange feel, but I couldn’t find a widget that really matched the vibe I wanted, so I just made my own.

It’s a neon clock with animated blue butterflies. Also my first time publishing a plasmoid, so this was partly an excuse to learn more QML stuff properly instead of endlessly tweaking configs.

Built with Qt6/QML, using MultiEffect for the glow. The butterflies are vector animated, and I added a small “Glow Decay” setting because I realized leaving a bright neon widget running 24/7 on an OLED is probably not the greatest idea.

• OS: Fedora
• DE: KDE Plasma 6
• WM: KWin
• Widget: Life is Strange Clock (OC)
• Code / GitHub: [https://github.com/shadi-maani/life-is-strange-butterfly-widget-clock]
• KDE Store: [https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2359080/]

Right now I’m cleaning up the QML structure a bit and adding custom butterfly colors based on some feedback people gave me earlier.

If anyone notices weird performance behavior, especially on Wayland, tell me because I’m still testing it across setups.

Hey r/unixporn,

I’ve been trying to give my desktop more of a Life is Strange feel, but I couldn’t find a widget that really matched the vibe I wanted, so I just made my own.

It’s a neon clock with animated blue butterflies. Also my first time publishing a plasmoid, so this was partly an excuse to learn more QML stuff properly instead of endlessly tweaking configs.

Built with Qt6/QML, using MultiEffect for the glow. The butterflies are vector animated, and I added a small “Glow Decay” setting because I realized leaving a bright neon widget running 24/7 on an OLED is probably not the greatest idea.

• OS: Fedora
• DE: KDE Plasma 6
• WM: KWin
• Widget: Life is Strange Clock (OC)
• Code / GitHub: [https://github.com/shadi-maani/life-is-strange-butterfly-widget-clock]
• KDE Store: [https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2359080/]

Right now I’m cleaning up the QML structure a bit and adding custom butterfly colors based on some feedback people gave me earlier.

If anyone notices weird performance behavior, especially on Wayland, tell me because I’m still testing it across setups.

Hey everyone,

A while back I got obsessed with the idea of making my desktop look a bit more like something out of Life is Strange. I use Plasma 6 daily and kept trying different widgets, but none of them really had the vibe I wanted, so I ended up making my own.

It’s basically a neon clock with animated blue butterflies floating around it. I went with vector animations mostly because the first versions were heavier than I expected and started feeling kind of awful once desktop blur/effects were enabled.

Everything’s written in Qt6/QML. The glow uses MultiEffect. Honestly the hardest part was stopping the thing from becoming annoying performance-wise after leaving it running for hours. I also added a small "Glow Decay" thing because I use an OLED monitor and paranoid brain said static neon elements were probably a bad idea.

This is the first plasmoid I’ve actually pushed out publicly, so I’m curious if anyone notices weird behavior on Wayland or spots obvious QML mistakes/performance issues.

GitHub:
https://github.com/shadi-maani/life-is-strange-butterfly-widget-clock

Pling:
https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2359080/

The visuals are fan-made obviously. Just heavily inspired by the game.

Hey everyone,

I pushed out a Plasma 6 clock widget a couple days ago and figured I’d post it here too. It started as me messing around with a Life is Strange inspired neon look, then slowly turned into an actual plasmoid instead of another abandoned QML experiment sitting in a folder somewhere.

Everything’s written in Qt6/QML. The glow uses MultiEffect, and the butterflies are vector animations because the early versions felt heavier than they had any right to be once blur/compositor effects kicked in.

I wired the settings directly into Plasma’s config window, so you can disable animations, switch themes around, mess with glow decay values, etc. The OLED burn-in paranoia is real.

If you use darker desktop themes or monochrome setups it’ll probably blend in better than on super colorful layouts.

KDE Store:
https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2359080/

GitHub:
https://github.com/shadi-maani/life-is-strange-butterfly-widget-clock

Mostly posting this because I want other people to break it and tell me what’s wrong with it. Especially on Wayland.