The Sonic-DE Flake!

The Sonic Desktop Environment (or just sonic-DE!) is a fork of the KDE that focuses on retaining x11 aspects of code for a hopefully more stable codebase.

Here are some handy links if you want to get in touch with the team!

The Sonic Desktop Environment will build on your machine. Please be patient!

Matrix

Telegram

Per-Project Status

Current Version: 6.7.1 / 6.27.0 !

Project	Status	Replaces
silver-theme	Working?	N/A
sonic-audio-applet-pulse	Working!	plasma-pa
sonic-activities	Working!	plasma-activities
sonic-decoration	Working!	kdecoration
sonic-desktop-interface	Working!	plasma-desktop
sonic-frameworks-auth	Working!	kauth
sonic-frameworks-core-addons	Working!	kcoreaddons
sonic-frameworks-cmake-modules	Working!	extra-cmake-modules
sonic-frameworks-gui-addons	Working!	kguiaddons
sonic-frameworks-io	Working!	kio
sonic-frameworks-keybind	Working!	kglobalaccel
sonic-frameworks-runner	Working!	krunner
sonic-frameworks-windowsystem	Working!	kwindowsystem
sonic-interface-libraries	Working!	libplasma
sonic-keybind-daemon	Working!	kglobalacceld
sonic-network-manager	Working!	plasma-nm
sonic-night-light	Working!	knighttime
sonic-screen	Working!	kscreen
sonic-screen-library	Working!	libkscreen
sonic-screenlocker	Working!	kscreenlocker
sonic-sysguard-library	Working!	libksysguard
sonic-system-info	Working!	kinfocenter
sonic-win	Working!	kwin-x11 (or just kwin)
sonic-workspace	Working!	plasma-workspace
sonic-workspace-addons	Working!	kdeplasma-addons
sonic-workspace-wallpapers	Working!	plasma-workspace-wallpapers

Testing and Modifying

By cloning the repo and cd'ing into the new directory, you can run nix build .#project-name then nix log .#project-name to evaluate a project. If you find an issue, or have an improvement to suggest, don't hesitate to file a pull request!

Using this Flake

flake.nix

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"; # 26.05 is not supported. However, the 6.6.5 release does support 26.05! 
    sonic-de.url = "github:sonicde-nixos/sonic-flake/6.7.1";
    sonic-de.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
  };
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, sonic-de ... }@inputs: {
    nixosConfigurations.your-hostname = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs sonic-de; };
      modules = [
        # this module will allow you to just set an option to enable Sonic-DE!
        "${sonic-de}/sonic-de.nix"

        # this module is also present; DO NOT USE IT YET.
        "${sonic-de}/sonic-login-manager.nix"

        ./configuration.nix

      ];
    };
  };
}

configuration.nix

{ config, pkgs, sonic-de, ... }:

{
  services.desktopManager.sonic-de.enable = true; # if you used the module we provide!

  services.displayManager.sonic-login-manager.enable = true; # this is only for testing purposes. do not use.

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    # normal packages
    git
    htop
    wget
    # ...
  ] ++ (with sonic-de.packages.${pkgs.system}; [ # to test individual packages
    # sonic packages
    sonic-win
    sonic-workspace
    sonic-desktop-interface
    # ...
  ]);
}

All patch files have been taken (and modified if necessary) from nixpkgs. Parts of my code are modified from equivalent versions in nixpkgs.