This release switches to the updated Material You python library by @T-Dynamos
New scheme variants, colorfulness/brightness control, and more:

New distribution packages

• openSUSE Tumbleweed install instructions
• Fedora 40 and Fedora Rawhide install instructions

Arch Linux AUR and pipx install/update instructions stay the same, check README

Bug fixes

• Respect screenshot delay https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/4caf11ae543a92cdec15c14428722dfc1122cfd8
• Don't apply delay to non-screenshot method https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/974e318a2405ee8d5afe668690e0193b21359e0d
• Fix widget not loading backend colors after username changes https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/05d60bc059d7a7dc8a396a62eb4f0dec8da61da8
• Fix autostart and launch desktop entries https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/c2a9544848be04f93175ea435c596d1bf9374c4b
• Allow custom qdbus executable name https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/e06de47756fed48fcc171ef388826592b8c11a5f

Improvements

• Port to T-Dynamos/materialyoucolor-python in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/192
• Add option to change between Material You scheme variants https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/6f47f166514787caded0ae6db5b42d89e338dfd6
• Better Plasma color scheme https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/60cfbd0fd14c0bf082ffd04d4d114767107f256e
• Stronger Plasma color scheme Disabled effect https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/b74339d9eaeea39c77432a68188d3bb271aa2acd
• Simplify generated theme https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/c22f8ae94ff003924856a84dc12472893041b71e
• Use dynamic color for custom text roles in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/200
• Add option to change colorfulness and brightness of theme (Replace blend with colorfulness and brightness) in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/201

Other

• Default to the top color when the requested index is out of bounds https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/b9338a14f7b5a5dad2d6061671a532e6aba0fd31
• plasmoid: Add links cursor feedback https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/cc434a4d114824bd90c079aa9e803deba52917d4
• Add back Pillow dependency https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/0a0fd50ce04acd56bfe5ada5cb321457674bdc7f
• Require QT6/KF6 to build https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/914f7d7afbd93b1586ec6b5b94887e2097f9d319

Note: The generated theme json structure has changed a, if you make use of it to theme other things, you will need to update those scripts

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.8.0...v1.9.1

What's Changed

• Port to Plasma6/KF6
• Added option to only use screenshot method to get the wallpaper

Known issues

• Slideshow wallpaper no longer updates the current wallpaper to Scripting API Plasma BUG:481741 use the "only use screenshot method" option or set your wallpapers folder by a script to get around this for now.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.7.1...v1.8.0

Fixed desktop screenshot mode

• Switched to compiled screenshot helper to take desktop view (wallpaper) screenshots (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/181) install instructions here
• AUR package now installs everything (backend + plasmoid + screenshot helper)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.7.0...v1.7.1

This version brings a new method to get the color source from previously unsupported wallpapers. It works by taking a screenshot of the desktop view on the selected screen.

New features

• Multi user support https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/154
• Get colors by taking a screenshot of desktop as fallback method https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/164
• Delay options to control how often colors should change https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/166
• Apply color theme to existing default or create Konsole profile automatically https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/167
• Paused mode to stop generating themes https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/7d75842413ec848c9e65eed8b4dc4434f88c1ff2 https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/173

Fixes

• Fix Konsole switching to old configuration when changing colors https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/170
• Now screen actually matches Desktop's screen instead of seemingly random numbers https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/b05da947935dfc3f3c536aed7518fbbc2a5c0502
  if you're using more than one screen you will probably need to change it
• Fix icon theme switch not working in some systems https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/157

Other improvements

• Split opacity options for normal and dark mode https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/171
• Update terminal colors preview to plain ANSI escape sequences and show hex codes https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/160bc2f9c2ee5e382373bc096fec37a1ae59698f
  python Colr optional module is no longer needed
• Don't write ANSI escape codes to the log file https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/4278a1bf3f96a8013d25706a7ce91e825965bd79
• plasmoid: Show when backend is an older/newer version than the recommended one https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/174
• plasmoid: Ported to PlasmaComponents 3 https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/8e6f86d586e86f0db2931c075e251fb5306fcad7

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0

https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/assets/15076387/794174e3-dd16-4698-9e9d-0eae721170a9

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0-beta1

What's Changed

• schemeconfigs: Make default color a little less dark and tinted in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/132
• CONTRIBUTING: Drop dev branch in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/145
• Create python package in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/149
• Automatically detect wallpaper plugin and try to get wallpaper data in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/151

New: Plasma Widget

• Add plasmoid to display and change configuration in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/146

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0

Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.6.0-beta1...v1.6.0-beta2

Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0-beta1

Fixed Desktop Entries (startup) not running

• utils: Add argparse help formatter exception for non-interactive shell (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/130)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.5.0...v1.5.1

Fixes

• Fix dark_light from theme_selector and crashes from darker_window_list by @ShatteredSkies (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/114)
• Fix dark/light plasma detection (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/120) special thanks to @ShatteredSkies for their testing
• Config: Fix arguments not overriding config file (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/124)
• Fix default color being too dark and others too saturated (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/128)

Theme related improvements

• Changes to theme by @ShatteredSkies (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/115)
• Improve pywal palette (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/119)
• Avoid the second kwin reload required to apply darker titlebar rule (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/125)

Other changes

• Refactor config with fallback values (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/117)
• Updated commandline help and better logging messages (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/127)
• Added contributing guidelines (https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/116)

New Contributors

• @ShatteredSkies made their first contribution in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/114

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.4.0...v1.5.0

What's Changed

• Add option to tint Klassy Window Decoration outline by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/107

• Add option to set custom text colors for pywal/konsole/KSyntaxHighlig by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/108
  

• Add option to make titlebar darker for specified applications by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/110
  

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0

What's Changed

• utils: keep runnig when plasmashell dies https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/02684ae90ef047e4149615e9aac0d832c549baa2
• utils: only mirror/reload konsole profile when needed https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/77206a0542d311d53c9115f7a17b57fc31057ce8
• Split utils into modules in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/104

Added

• Basic KSyntaxHighlighting support (Kate, KWrite, KDevelop...) in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/105, help to improve it in #103

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0

What's Changed

• utils: Fix path for default (KPackage) wallpapers in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/98
• Support Plasma 5.26 dark wallpaper variants in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/99

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.1.1...v1.2.0

Note

Due to some changes in Plasma 5.26 this script does NOT work with the Slideshow wallpaper (org.kde.slideshow) you can use ksetwallpaper (python script) as a replacement

What's Changed

• utils: Config: initialize vars to avoid errors if there is no config file by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/90

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.1.0...v1.1.1

What's Changed

• refactor with watchers for config changes by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/79
• Avoid crash when org.kde.plasmashell dbus interface becomes unavailable by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/80
• Add custom color option by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/81
• Config: don't default to dark mode so MaterialYouLight/Dark detection… by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/82
• Update logging colors by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/83
• schemeconfigs: Swap intense and faint for pywal color0 by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/84
• Add --stop arg to kill any existing instance by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/85
• Add Desktop entries to start/restart stop the script by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/86

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Changes

• utils: Fix path for Bing Picture of the Day by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/75
• utils: Add support for Klassy TitleBar opacity control by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/76

Breaking changes

• Config sbe_titlebar_opacity was renamed to more generic titlebar_opacity

• Flags for toolbar opacity and titlebar opacity were renamed to:

  --toolbar-opacity, -too and --titlebar-opacity, -tio

Update your config and/or scripts accordingly

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v0.9.1...v1.0.0

What's Changed

• Fix button colors & update palette to more saturated colors https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/72/commits/e191493daaa5469cf252af477c55587e666f43b8 #71

• Fix inactive selection text color (workaround) https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/72/commits/49be029dc7d0d1b4dbf190292b56a61f59da3c2e #71

• Fix View hover decoration color https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/72/commits/a561ed1b8fec8ad31642750c0fd3c1dc26d2aa88 #71

What's Changed

• Improve color palette passed to pywal and konsole in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/64 https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/1bbfd6c024507c00e54ff6501243097b4671243e https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/commit/6bd75466b4dea5067d64a7c28e304ce1d7921555
• Sort|filter pywal colors by luminance|contrast in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/66
• Use python port of material-color-utilities in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/68

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v0.8.0...v0.9.0

What's Changed

• utils: Use the kwin blend effect when switching color schemes https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/59
• Add option to change toolbar and title bar opacity https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/60
• Use same background and blend against OnBackground for pywal palette https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/61
• Add option to change Konsole background opacity https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/62

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v0.7.0...v0.8.0

What's Changed

• [wip] Add complementary and header colors by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/56
• Generate intense and faint color variants for terminal, support for f… by @luisbocanegra in https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/pull/57

Full Changelog: https://github.com/luisbocanegra/kde-material-you-colors/compare/v0.6.0BETA...v0.7.0