Bring a little Tahoe to your Linux desktop.

A macOS Tahoe-inspired theme for KDE Plasma 6.6 and 6.7+, with liquid glass, a top menu bar, a Dock, matching app themes, sounds, and a boot screen. Pick the parts you like in the installer.

Find an app with a quick search, keep your favorites close, or browse with a choice of two views.

Your apps sit on a glass Dock that refracts the wallpaper, with hover zoom and notification badges to show what needs your attention.

Give Nautilus a familiar Finder feel, with a macOS-style sidebar and a simpler toolbar in both light and dark modes.

Keep the system menu, active app name, and window controls together in the top bar, with app menus available for applications that support the global menu.

Check your computer's details in a glass window that fits the rest of the desktop.

Even the desktop's right-click menu gets the glass treatment, with a translucent background and blur.

An Apple-style logo sits at the center of each monitor, scaling to fit displays from 1080p to 4K. A progress bar appears during startup; shutdown and reboot keep the same layout without it. If your disk uses LUKS2 encryption, Plymouth shows a masked passphrase field below the logo.

Open the graphical installer and choose what you'd like to install or remove:

./installer

For the same choices in a terminal wizard:

sudo ./install
sudo ./uninstall

Both installers show live progress and support English, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese. Run sudo ./install --help for all options.

sudo ./install --no-gtk --no-sddm
sudo ./install --only --fonts --icons
sudo ./uninstall --only --cursors

sudo ./install          # automatic light/dark schedule
sudo ./install --light
sudo ./install --dark

mac-tahoe-theme-switch light
mac-tahoe-theme-switch dark
mac-tahoe-theme-switch auto

sudo ./install --no-gtk --dark --save
sudo ./install --reset

sudo ./install --oled-care
sudo ./install --oled-care --save
sudo ./install --no-oled-care
sudo ./install --oled-care --oled-interval=3 --oled-max-shift=4

mac-tahoe-oled-care shift
mac-tahoe-oled-care restore
mac-tahoe-oled-care status

./vm <os>

Distributions

	Name	Status
	CachyOS
	Arch Linux
	EndeavourOS
	Fedora
	Manjaro
	Artix Linux (OpenRC)
	Garuda Linux
	Nobara
	openSUSE Tumbleweed
	Gentoo
	KDE neon

Init systems

Artix uses the Arch package mappings even when its os-release omits ID_LIKE=arch. Dependency installation, all three C++ builds, the full test suite, and crontab operations have been checked in an Artix OpenRC container. Live installation testing is still needed; Artix is not yet included in the automated container matrix. Scheduled theme changes and OLED care use the existing per-user cron support and require a running cron daemon.

Plasma versions

env GTK3_MODULES="${GTK3_MODULES:+$GTK3_MODULES:}appmenu-gtk-module" your-application

Still to come: icon polish, broader distro testing, and more app themes and widgets.

Thanks to everyone helping with code, translations, bug reports, and testing. You don't need to write code to contribute.

Bug reports are the most valuable contribution right now: open an issue or choose Apple menu → About This Computer → Report a Bug… from the desktop.

Please include:

• Your Plasma version: plasmashell --version
• Your distro: grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release
• The theme version: cat VERSION
• A screenshot or recording for visual issues

Pull requests are welcome. Keep them focused and test them with the ./vm harness before submitting. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the project workflow.

This is an independent reimplementation inspired by the macOS aesthetic. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple or KDE. "macOS" and "Apple" are trademarks of Apple Inc.

The bundled wallpapers, system sounds, and SF Pro / SF Mono fonts remain Apple's property and are not covered by this project's license. All other code and theme assets are original or derived from compatibly licensed open-source work.

Licensed GPL-3.0.

Thanks to the open-source projects that inspired this one or fed assets into it. Everything here is maintained independently:

• EliverLara: TahoeLauncher, the inspiration for the Launcher plasmoid.
• vinceliuice: MacTahoe-icon-theme for the icons, cursors, and GTK inspiration; and the MacTahoe-gtk-theme Firefox CSS/SVG, maintained here as an MIT-licensed fork and integrated with this project's profile backup and restore system.
• taj-ny and 4v3ngR: Better Blur and its glass fork, the starting point of the Acrylic Glass effect (the KWin blur authors stay credited in the source headers).
• luisbocanegra: plasma-panel-colorizer v7.3.0, bundled offline and installed by the layout step to tint the panels (GPL-3.0, license shipped alongside).
• Matin Lotfaliei / KDE-Rounded-Corners: the GPL-3.0 KWin rounded-window effect, fetched from the pinned v0.9.0 release and built online against the host KWin SDK (license installed alongside).
• ful1e5: apple_cursor, inspiration for an alternate macOS-style cursor.
• sahibjotsaggu: San-Francisco-Pro-Fonts, where the SF Pro / SF Mono bundle comes from.
• Lucide: copy icons bundled in the global menu (ISC, © Lucide Contributors).
• 512pixels.net: high-resolution macOS wallpaper archive.

Please support their efforts too: star their repos, report bugs upstream, and contribute back when you can.

If a credit is missing, please open an issue.