DankLinux.com has announced the release of DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.6, a user environment that supports working on top of composite servers including niri, Hyprland, Sway, MangoWC, labwc, Scroll, and Miracle WM. DankMaterialShell offers a unified set of interconnected components, such as the taskbar, virtual desktop switcher, navigation interface for installed applications, and a configurator. The design follows the concept of Material Design 3. The background process code for integration with the system, tools, and installer is written in Go and distributed under the MIT license. Interface components, panels, widgets, and graphical applications are prepared in the QML language using the Quickshell framework, which is written in C++ using Qt.
Key features of DankMaterialShell include dynamic skins that are automatically applied to GTK, Qt, and system applications, metrics for collecting data on CPU, RAM, and GPU resources, an expandable interface through plugins, a control center for network, Bluetooth, sound devices, and screen settings, night mode, notification center, panel with widgets like calendar and weather forecast, system lock screen, login screen Dank Greeter, system of plugins installed from the plugin repository, universal installer for different Linux distributions, Dank Search for file searching, Dank Calendar for scheduling, and the development of a file manager and application DankConnect for smartphone integration.