Removed a lot of desktop entries, to clean up Menu. Added a boot splash screen.

boot-splash.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+{
+boot = {
+    loader.timeout = 0;
+    # silence first boot output
+    consoleLogLevel = 3;
+    initrd.verbose = false;
+    initrd.systemd.enable = true;
+    kernelParams = [
+        "quiet"
+        "splash"
+        "intremap=on"
+        "boot.shell_on_fail"
+        "udev.log_priority=3"
+        "rd.systemd.show_status=auto"
+    ];
+
+    # plymouth, showing after LUKS unlock
+    plymouth.enable = true;
+    plymouth.font = "${pkgs.hack-font}/share/fonts/truetype/Hack-Regular.ttf";
+    plymouth.logo = "${pkgs.nixos-icons}/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/nix-snowflake.png";
+};
+}

flake.nix

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
           modules = [
             ./configuration.nix
             ./firefox.nix
+            ./boot-splash.nix
             ./zsh.nix
             ./neovim.nix
             ./packages.nix

home.nix

@@ -24,16 +24,86 @@
   # changes in each release.
   home.stateVersion = version;
 
-xdg = {
+  xdg = {
-  desktopEntries.youtube = {
+    desktopEntries.youtube = {
-    name = "YouTube";
+      name = "YouTube";
-    exec = "chromium --app=https://www.youtube.com";
+      exec = "chromium --app=https://www.youtube.com";
-    terminal = false;
+      terminal = false;
-    type = "Application";
+      type = "Application";
-    icon = "applications-multimedia";
+      icon = "applications-multimedia";
-    categories = [ "AudioVideo" "Player" "Network" ];
+      categories = [ "AudioVideo" "Player" "Network" ];
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.konsole" = {
+      name = "Konsole";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.kinfocenter" = {
+      name = "Info Center";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.khelpcenter" = {
+      name = "Help Center";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.kmenuedit" = {
+      name = "Menu Editor";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."micro" = {
+      name = "Micro";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."nvim" = {
+      name = "Neovim";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."btop" = {
+      name = "btop++";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."chromium-desktop" = {
+      name = "Chromium";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."nixos-manual" = {
+      name = "NixOS Manual";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.freedesktop.IBus.Setup" = {
+      name = "IBus Preferences";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.drkonqi" = {
+      name = "Crashed Processes Viewer";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+    desktopEntries."com.cloudflare.WarpTaskbar" = {
+      name = "Cloudflare Zero Trust";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.kwrite" = {
+      name = "KWrite";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
+    desktopEntries."org.kde.discover" = {
+      name = "Discover";
+      noDisplay = true;
+    };
+
   };
-};
 
   # Let Home Manager install and manage itself.
   programs = {
@@ -43,7 +113,9 @@ xdg = {
     kitty = {
       enable = true;
       settings = {
-        background_opacity = "0.7"; #The higher the value, the darker the console
+        background_opacity = "0.2"; #The higher the value, the darker the console
+
+        background_blur = 10;
       };
     };
 

packages.nix

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     multipath-tools
     docker
     docker-compose
+    plymouth
     
     #Programming
     #jetbrains.pycharm-community		#The PyCharm IDE to edit Python code
@@ -68,7 +69,9 @@
     chromium  #For Youtube app to work
     kdePackages.bluez-qt
     #latte-dock
+    moonlight-qt
     kitty
+    tdrop
     
     #CLI tools
     yt-dlp
@@ -87,22 +90,21 @@
     "dotnet-runtime-6.0.36"
   ];
 
-services.flatpak = {
+  services.flatpak = {
-  enable = true;
+    enable = true;
-
-  remotes = [
-    {
-      name = "flathub";
-      location = "https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo";
-    }
-  ];
-  packages = [
-    {
-      appId = "org.vinegarhq.Sober";
-      origin = "flathub";
-      commit = "e28fd81675b0871614ccdc8fc66c6da6761dd11333a65900a0451edf07ef0ea6";
-    }
-  ];
-};
 
+    remotes = [
+      {
+        name = "flathub";
+        location = "https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo";
+      }
+    ];
+    packages = [
+      {
+        appId = "org.vinegarhq.Sober";
+        origin = "flathub";
+        commit = "e28fd81675b0871614ccdc8fc66c6da6761dd11333a65900a0451edf07ef0ea6";
+      }
+    ];
+  };
 }

plasma/kde-plasma.nix

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ in
   ];
 
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    kdePackages.plymouth-kcm
 #    (pkgs.writeTextDir "share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf.user" ''
 #      [General]
 #      background = "${background-package}"

plasma/konsave.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FLAG_FILE="/home/cookiez/.flags/theme-flag"
 
 /run/current-system/sw/bin/konsave -i /etc/nixos/plasma/NixOS-1.0.0.knsv
 /run/current-system/sw/bin/konsave -i /etc/nixos/plasma/NixOS-1.0.0.knsv
-/run/current-system/sw/bin/konsave -a theme
+/run/current-system/sw/bin/konsave -a NixOS-1.0.0
 
 progress_bar() {
 	local duration=$1