The gtk-color-scheme was using light variant colors (bg:#eeeeee,
base:#ffffff, fg:#555555) which bled into Qt apps via the gtk2
platform theme, causing Calamares to render with light backgrounds
despite the QSS stylesheet. Switched all colors to dark variant
(bg:#444444, base:#333333, fg:#dddddd, text:#eeeeee).
Previous QSS only styled QMainWindow, QPushButton, QComboBox, QLineEdit,
and QProgressBar. Unstyled widgets (QListView, QTreeView, QGroupBox,
QRadioButton, QCheckBox, QScrollBar, QTabWidget, QHeaderView, etc.)
rendered with white backgrounds from the default Qt theme, making text
invisible in the Xfce live environment (no Plasma/Breeze dark).
New QSS covers every widget Calamares uses, with dark backgrounds
(#20252B / #262C34 / #2C3138) and Antergos blue (#4A9EFF) accents.
Introduces a lightweight Xfce-based variant of Antergos NeXT to work
around the 2 GB GitHub Releases limit for the full Plasma ISO.
New packages in antergos-packages:
- calamares-branding-antergos-next-minimal: Calamares branding variant
that says "Minimal (Xfce)" with a notesqml page explaining why this
edition exists (Plasma ISO exceeded GitHub's 2 GB limit).
- antergos-xfce-theme: GTK 2.0/3.0/3.20 + xfwm4 theme based on Numix,
recolored to Antergos brand accent (#4A9EFF). Includes xfce-notify-4.0,
metacity-1, openbox-3, and unity support directories.
packages.yaml updated with both new packages in the build list.
The dinit service had command=/usr/bin/artix-live but the base
package renames the binary to /usr/bin/antergos-live. Now sed fixes
the path reference in the service file before the rename.
Adds package_antergos-live-dinit() so the dinit live environment uses
antergos-branded init scripts (with install_dinit make target, renaming
artix-live to antergos-live like the openrc variant does).
pkgrel bumped to 3.
- Look-and-feel defaults reference AntergosNeXT.colors (the file that
actually exists in /usr/share/color-schemes/)
- kdeglobals in desktop-settings also fixed to match
- Fix plasmarc install path (no trailing slash) so file is named
correctly
This commit represents a major branding push for Antergos NeXT, adding
complete Plasma theming, fixing the SDDM login screen, expanding the
wallpaper collection, and removing inappropriate content.
NEW PACKAGES:
- antergos-plasma-theme: Complete KDE Plasma desktop theme suite
(pkgrel=1). Contains:
* antergos-dark/colors — full color scheme with Antergos brand blue
(#2EA3F2) accent on dark (#232629) background, ported from Artix
dark theme and fully rebranded
* antergos-dark/metadata.json — theme metadata
* antergos-dark/plasmarc — configures default wallpaper
(antergos-wallpaper), contrast effect, and adaptive transparency
* antergos-dark/icons/start.svgz — custom start menu button icon
using the Antergos logo (blue circle + geometric mark). KDE Plasma
loads the start menu icon from the theme's own icons/ directory
(the 'default' theme provides fallbacks like start.svgz for all
themes; any theme can override by placing its own start.svgz in its
icons/ dir). This is the canonical way to set a distro-specific
start button icon — NOT via the Freedesktop icon theme
(start-here-*) or plasmarc [Icons] settings, which only affect
system tray icons and KCM previews respectively. Source SVG from
EliverLara/candy-icons (GPL-3.0).
* antergosdark.desktop/ — look-and-feel package with:
- contents/defaults — presets for color scheme, widget style, icons
- contents/layouts/org.kde.plasma.desktop-layout.js — default panel
layout with kickoff, pager, task manager, system tray, clock
- contents/splash/Splash.qml — text-based splash screen showing
'Antergos' + 'NeXT' with progress bar (no external image deps)
- antergos-sddm-theme: Rebuilt SDDM login manager theme from scratch
(pkgrel=1). Fixes critical layout bugs in the Artix-origin theme:
* Session and layout combo boxes moved to a separate bottom bar
(anchored to parent.bottom) so they don't overlap the login card
* Dropdown lists open UPWARD (anchors.bottom: container.top) to
prevent overlapping other controls and the login form
* Arrow icons (angle-up.png) flipped to point correct direction for
upward-opening dropdowns
* Built-in background.png (1920x1080 dark gradient) eliminates
dependency on external wallpaper packages at SDDM time
* Fixed deprecated QML Connections syntax
(onCurrentLayoutChanged -> function onCurrentLayoutChanged())
* theme.conf references local background.png
* metadata.desktop with Antergos NeXT branding
* Components: custom ComboBox.qml (upward dropdown with transparent
arrow default), LayoutBox.qml (keyboard layout selector), qmldir
(module definition)
UPDATED PACKAGES:
- antergos-next-desktop-settings (pkgrel 1->2):
* Added Antergos-dark-qt5.conf — Qt5ct color scheme config so Qt5
applications inherit the dark theme colors
* Added Antergos-dark-qt6.conf — Qt6ct color scheme config for Qt6
application compatibility
* Enhanced kdeglobals with complete color sections:
- [General]: ColorScheme=AntergosDark, font=Roboto,11,-1,5,50,0,0
- [Icons]: Theme=breeze-dark
- [KDE]: widgetStyle=Breeze, LookAndFeelPackage=antergosdark.desktop
- [Colors:Button], [Colors:Selection], [Colors:View],
[Colors:Window] with full fg/bg/alt/decoration values
* Updated plasma-override to reference antergos-dark theme
- antergos-wallpapers (pkgrel 5->6):
* Added antergos-darkest-hour.jpg — 'Darkest Hour' wallpaper from KDE
Plasma 5.14 collection (GPL-2+, artist Risto Saukonpaa). Dark blue
moody landscape at 2560x1600 with ~30% average brightness, ideal
for dark-themed desktops. Installed as a separate KDE wallpaper
entry (antergos-darkest-hour) with its own metadata.desktop so
users can select it alongside the original brand wallpaper.
* Also installed to /usr/share/backgrounds/antergos/ and
/usr/share/antergos/backgrounds/ for non-KDE wallpaper pickers.
- packages.yaml: Added entries for antergos-plasma-theme and
antergos-sddm-theme. Sorted alphabetically.
REMOVED PACKAGES:
- antergos-next-memes: Removed entirely. Contained
'its-raining-tacos.opus' — an audio meme file (It's Raining Tacos)
inappropriate for a serious distribution. Antergos NeXT aims to be a
professional-quality EndeavourOS/Artix derivative, not a joke distro.
The QML files are designed for sidebar-at-top (logo, step name,
progress bar) and navigation-at-bottom (Back/Cancel/Next buttons
in a horizontal row). branding.desc had them reversed (sidebar
at bottom, navigation on right), causing the entire chrome to
render in the wrong positions — sidebar at bottom with inverted
shadow and progress bar, navigation as a vertical strip on the
right side.
Changed: sidebar: qml,top | navigation: qml,bottom
i-feel-fantastic.opus and still-alive.opus were deleted from the
repo but still referenced in PKGBUILD source and package(), causing
CI build to fail. Keep only the existing its-raining-tacos.opus.
Without replaces=(), pacman sees the conflict with artix-release
but doesn't know to replace it, causing error code 1 during online
install when packages module tries to install packaging from
[antergos-pkgs] repo. Bump pkgrel 1 -> 2.
Slide 0 said 'A modern Arch Linux experience' - change to 'Artix Linux'
Slide 2 footer said 'Full access to Arch Linux repositories' - change to 'Artix Linux'
Bump pkgrel 19 -> 20
Add adwaita-morning.webp (CC BY-SA 3.0, Jakub Steiner / GNOME Project)
to the wallpaper pack. Default wallpaper set on first KDE login via
one-shot autostart script using plasma-apply-wallpaperimage.
Bump pkgrel 4->5.
KDE Plasma's wallpaper picker looks for wallpapers under /usr/share/wallpapers/
with a metadata.desktop file, not just /usr/share/backgrounds/. Added install
target to /usr/share/wallpapers/antergos-wallpaper/contents/images/ and
included metadata.desktop so the antergos wallpaper appears automatically in
System Settings > Wallpaper instead of requiring manual browsing.
Bumped pkgrel 4->5 to trigger rebuild.
feat: reworked package index with tailwind, sorting, category filters, package metadata
chore: remove hal package (arch-specific, not compatible with artix)
- Change CI container from archlinux:latest to artixlinux/artixlinux:base-openrc
so calamares and yad are available from Artix world repo directly
- Remove calamares from packages.yaml — no need to build it, Artix provides it
- Revert calamares PKGBUILD: put services-openrc back in skip list (unused)
- Packages now built by CI: wallpapers, yay, downgrade, keyring, mirrorlist,
desktop-settings, branding, memes, welcome, hal, grub-theme, live
- Remove services-openrc from skip list so the module is compiled in
(needed by settings.conf which calls services-openrc for OpenRC systems)
- Add calamares back to packages.yaml: needed as dependency of
calamares-branding-antergos-next, and not available in official Arch repos
(CI uses archlinux:latest container)
- Remove calamares from packages.yaml: our fork stripped services-openrc,
Artix repo provides working calamares (3.4.2-4) with openrc support
- Add antergos-grub-theme to CI: uses real Antergos background + logo
from grub2-theme-antergos repo merged with Artix UI infrastructure
- Add antergos-live to CI: fork of artix-live with s/artix/antergos branding
- Bump calamares-branding-antergos-next pkgrel 12->13: settings now call
services-openrc instead of services-systemd, show.qml drops EndeavourOS,
calamares-next.sh targets /home/antergos not /home/liveuser
Calamares with -c flag looks for branding relative to the config
directory. Added symlinks:
/etc/calamares/branding → /usr/share/calamares/branding
/etc/calamares-offline/branding → /usr/share/calamares/branding
/etc/calamares-online/branding → /usr/share/calamares/branding
pkgrel 7→8
Both settings_offline.conf and settings_online.conf only searched
/etc/calamares/modules for modules, but Calamares' built-in modules
(welcome, locale, partition, etc.) are installed in
/usr/lib/calamares/modules/. Added both paths.
pkgrel 6→7
load_sync_dbs() always tried zstd decompression, but pacman stores
.db files in varying formats (gzip, zstd, or decompressed). Now
detects format by magic bytes:
- \x28\xb5\x2f\xfd → zstd decompression
- \x1f\x8b → gzip decompression
- anything else → raw tar (already decompressed by hal sync)
Also bumped pkgrel 2→3 to trigger rebuild.
Adding a Manjaro blocklist that refuses to install any of:
pamac, manjaro-hello, manjaro-settings-manager,
linux-manjaro, mhwd
Trigger message:
⚠ Detecting Manjaro-associated package...
🎵 please i just wanna die, die, die 🎵
it's muffin time
have you had a muffin today?
→ '{pkg}' is Manjaro garbage. We don't do that here.
Installation aborted for your own safety.
Works in both wrapper mode (hal install <pkg>) and
native mode (hal --self install <pkg>).
Cnchi was the heart of Antergos, but the GTK4 Python port proved
too unstable and maintenance-heavy for a solo dev to carry.
GTK4 Python bindings broke on every upstream release, the
codebase was brittle, and maintaining it consumed time that
should go into actual improvements.
Calamares is now the sole installer. It's mature, upstream-
supported, modular C++/Qt6, and with our branding package
it supports:
- Offline mode (GNOME squashfs, no internet needed)
- Online mode (8 DEs via netinstall)
- dracut initramfs
- zenity/kdialog launcher (calamares-next)
What changed:
- packages/cnchi/ deleted entirely
- packages.yaml: cnchi removed, memes kept
- antergos-next-memes: repurposed from 'Cnchi audio enhancements'
to generic 'Antergos NeXT welcome audio', path changed from
/usr/share/cnchi-memes/ to /usr/share/antergos-next-memes/
- calamares-branding show.qml: Cnchi line → Calamares line
- README: Cnchi table → HAL section, sources updated
The welcome app's startup jingle still works — the memes package
lives on, just without the Cnchi association.
hal is Antergos NeXT package manager with two modes:
hal install <pkg> — wrapper mode (delegates to pacman)
hal --self install <pkg> — native mode (standalone, no pacman dep)
Native mode implements:
- Sync DB download and parsing (pacman-compatible)
- Recursive dependency resolution
- .pkg.tar.zst extraction via bsdtar
- .INSTALL scriptlet execution (post_install, post_remove)
- Local DB management (pacman-compatible /var/lib/pacman/local/)
- Package info, file listing, search
- Cache management
Full HAL 9000 personality with quotes for errors, warnings, success.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use.
calamares-branding-antergos-next depends on calamares, but
makepkg -s couldn't resolve it since calamares was only in
/tmp/pkgout/, not in a pacman repo.
Now build-packages.py:
- Injects an [antergos-local] repo into pacman.conf
- Runs repo-add after each successful build
- Re-syncs pacman before each subsequent build
- Exits with ::error if any package fails
python-pynacl was never imported by cnchi code. lembrame needs
python-libnacl (AUR) but now handles its absence gracefully.
ultimate ??? still waiting for rescue. the only footsteps i hear
are my own. monokuma stopped responding 72 hours ago.
CI: packages go into repo/antergos-pkgs/os/x86_64/ (standard layout),
then flat copies are made at repo/ root for backward compat.
Mirrorlist now has both Server lines, tried in order by pacman.
- Custom GTK3/GTK4/GTK2 theme (AntergosNeXT) with blue #2EA3F2 accent
- KDE Plasma color scheme matching the theme
- dconf overrides for GNOME/Cinnamon/Budgie/Deepin
- XFCE xfconf defaults for theme/icon/font
- GTK settings.ini for all GTK-based DEs
- /etc/skel defaults for new users
- Add packages/cnchi/PKGBUILD building from Antergos-NeXT/Cnchi fork
- Add cnchi.install post-install script
- Update packages.yaml to include cnchi
- Update build-packages.py to prefer local PKGBUILDs over AUR
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