Argent Modern (Argent Dawn / Argent Dusk)
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Authors
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Argent Linux Developers
Darius Crisan <dariuscrisan37@gmail.com>
Year 2026 AD

Licence: GPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE). The GTK stylesheets are
LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt).
The Argent Dawn window decoration is GPL-3.0 (see LICENSE).


Code this theme is forked from and/or derived from
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plasma-deepin-theme, by the plasma-deepin-theme contributors
  Copyright 2021-2026 Gerald Greiling and the plasma-deepin-theme contributors
  https://github.com/geraldgreiling/plasma-deepin-theme
  GPL-3.0-or-later. Argent Modern reworked as fork of this project: the
  colour scheme, Plasma style, GTK and Plymouth generators, the global theme
  layout, the splash screen and the SDDM theme are derived from it.

Fluent-kde, by Vince Liuice (vinceliuice)
  Copyright 2021-2022 Vince Liuice (Fluent-round-light decoration)
  https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-kde
  GPL-3.0. The Argent Dawn window decoration (aurorae/Argent-Modern) is the
  Fluent-round-light Aurorae decoration, renamed.

GTK (built-in Adwaita stylesheets of GTK 3 and GTK 4), by the GTK contributors
  Copyright 2010-2026 the GTK and Adwaita contributors (Adwaita begun in
  2010 in gnome-themes-standard, part of GTK since 2014; taken from
  GTK 3.24.52 and GTK 4.20.4)
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
  LGPL-2.1-or-later. The Argent-Dawn and Argent-Dusk GTK themes are
  generated from these stylesheets.


Artwork
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Default wallpaper (wallpaper/Argent-Modern, used by Argent Dawn and Argent Dusk;
  sddm/argent-modern/background.jpg is a blurred copy)
  Mountain lake landscape, by Justiony Wick
  https://backiee.com/publisher/justiony-wick/154853


Design references (no code or artwork copied)
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WinSur-kde, by yeyushengfan258
  https://github.com/yeyushengfan258/WinSur-kde
  Argent Dusk window decoration: compact title bar, rounded corners, thin
  outline and translucent frame.

WhiteSur-kde, by vinceliuice
  https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-kde
  Tooltip and desktop widget style (WhiteSur-alt).

Fluent-kde, by vinceliuice
  https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-kde
  Focused task button in Argent Dawn (Fluent-round-light).

Orchis-kde, by vinceliuice
  https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-kde
  Focused task button in Argent Dusk (Orchis-dark).

Materia KDE, by the Papirus Development Team
  https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/materia-kde
  Argent Dusk black colour palette.

Win11OS-kde, by yeyushengfan258
  https://github.com/yeyushengfan258/Win11OS-kde
  Task button size and margins.

Deepin desktop (DTK), by UnionTech
  https://github.com/linuxdeepin
  Overall look that plasma-deepin-theme and therefore Argent Modern follow.


Built on (runtime dependencies, not included in this package)
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KDE Plasma, KWin and Aurorae, by KDE
  https://invent.kde.org/plasma
  Desktop shell, window manager and the window decoration engine that
  draws the Argent Dawn and Argent Dusk decorations.

Breeze, by KDE
  https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze
  Application style, cursors and the fallback Plasma style.

Breeze icons, Kirigami and KSvg, by KDE
  https://invent.kde.org/frameworks
  Icon fallback, splash screen and SVG frame rendering.

hicolor icon theme, by freedesktop.org
  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/icon-theme/
  Last icon fallback.

Argent Papirus icon theme (separate package, see its own CREDITS)
  Based on the Papirus icon theme by the Papirus Development Team.
