KonX 0.30.0

KonX 0.30.0 — Five Animated Themes

2026-10-26. Five new themes bring stronger glow and distinct animated backgrounds to KonX, with coordinated terminal and editor colors.

Changes

Theme	Colors and motion
Ion Storm	Violet and ice blue with branching electrical arcs and traveling points of light
Solar Flare	Amber and copper with a glowing solar corona and slowly moving flares
Aurora Flux	Mint and violet with flowing aurora curtains
Hyperdrive	Ice blue and indigo with a moving starfield
Ghost Circuit	Mint and amber with pulses traveling along circuit traces

• Select a new theme in Settings → Appearance → Application theme, then Save.
• Coordinate the interface, Notepad, and terminals set to Follow application theme. Explicit global and saved per-session terminal palettes retain their selected colors and opaque backgrounds.
• Pause or resume animation from the header or Animate theme effects in Appearance. Pausing retains the colors and decorative background; Windows reduced motion also stops animation.
• Use every theme with Classic, Docked Workbench, Incident Desk, Operations Wall, or Focus Workspace, including floating panels and native pop-outs.
• Fix theme animation in hidden or minimized native pop-outs: each window now pauses according to its own visibility and resumes when visible if motion is enabled.
• Keep all 13 earlier themes, including the five static palettes added in 0.29.0. KonX now offers 18 application themes, 11 of them animated.
• Preserve saved theme, layout, motion, terminal-palette, and clipboard preferences during upgrades. The top-right updater and terminal clipboard controls introduced in 0.28.0 remain available.

See the theme guide and tester checklist, Appearance guide, and workspace guide.

Downloads and upgrading

Windows x64: installer, portable, and checksums.

Installed 0.6.2+ and portable 0.6.0+ can use Update KonX. The shortcut is at the top right in 0.28.0+, or on Home in older releases; Settings → Updates also remains available. Installed 0.6.0/0.6.1 requires one manual upgrade. Save drafts, stop listeners and captures, and disconnect before restarting. Both distributions keep the existing Windows profile. See the update guide.

Validation

Full suite: 1,077/1,077 passed. Windows packaging verified 159 source files and 9 runtime dependencies. Packaged SSH passed 28 negotiation and 16 key-format checks; serial passed 27 synthetic checks. Unpacked and portable builds passed isolated save/restart smoke checks. Executable product versions match 0.30.0.

Theme checks exercised all 18 themes across five layouts, actual animated frames, pause/resume, Windows reduced motion, inactive and hidden output, native pop-out visibility and redocking, saved preferences, explicit terminal palettes, Monaco syntax colors, and packet/SIP readability. Live test-session text, copied output, and saved logs remained unchanged. The new terminal palettes achieved at least 4.91:1 contrast against sampled bright frames and 4.67:1 against the conservative all-white decoration bound.

Coverage

Automated release checks use isolated profiles and synthetic data. Physical equipment, live providers, physical multi-monitor changes, and an elevated installed upgrade require separate field testing. Executables remain unsigned.