Following up my earlier post, the new openSUSE 12.3 theme has finally landed into the official openSUSE repositories and will be part of the upcoming 12.3. A lot of work has gone into the new theme since I last posted about it, so this post will show how things look at the moment.
A few caveats:
- The theme targets the 4.10 release of the KDE Workspaces, so it may be not be perfect under 4.9;
- The default wallpaper has not been chosen yet.
Without further ado, let’s get down to seeing what’s improved.
Desktop view
Desktop with System Settings and Dolphin
Notifications and system tray
Dolphin with the new theme
Add widgets controller
Of course feedback is always appreciated: there’s still time until openSUSE 12.3 ships, so be sure to let us know what can be changed so we can make this a truly awesome visual experience for openSUSE KDE users.
what a beautiful theme! thanks for your great work!
there is a tiny bug in openSUSE 12.2 with KDE 4.8.5. a program’s title text on taskbar can not be read clearly when a dark wallpaper is used.
is this bug been fixed within kde 4.10?
and as far as i know, openSUSE 12.3 milestone 1 ships with KDE 4.9.2
The current plan for the KDE team is to get 4.10 Beta 1 in the development repo for Factory, then merge things back into Factory (and so the main openSUSE line for 12.3) when RC1 ships.
As for the theming bug, I’ll let the people who made the theme know.
@bruce ouyang
I can’t reproduce your problem with 4.10. The text is a little bit darker for inactive/minimized apps, but it is readable.
In which repositories is this new theme?
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The theme is great but…
I was really hopping i would get green icons (for folder and other icons) as well, like in the Oxygen Ionized theme (kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=149460)
It’s the only thing i can complaint ;)
@greenguy
We tried how it looks, but that would be a green overkill :)
Great work getting an OpenSUSE identity within KDE!
I agree with greenguy: I think the blue Oxygen icons and the green theme clash, but this is progress, and the icons can be changed easier than creating a theme.
Please pressure the KDE team to bring back the old feature that was available for Konqueror, and which would now be very useful for Konqueror and Dolphin:
The ability to set a custom backgronud color or texture.
That would allow you to set a background different than that white one, which seems to unbalance your theme a bit.
Looks awesome.
It would be nice if the apper or updates available icon adapts to the plasma theme.
The window colours look very out of place with the desktop widgets. The window default background stands in sharp contrast with its white to the black background of the widgets. It should blend in with a greenish or bluue-gray hue. The window grey does not blend with any of the colours – it also needs correction.
JMHO.
I am thinking more like the ‘glacier’ color scheme – this is what I use nowadays. The default application widgets look godawful ugly with the windows 95 like gray and widget boundaries that stand out as in motif. Even oxygen style could use improvement and I believe that they are working on that in the default Qt styles for Qt 5.0.
I think it would be cool to use the dark color for window decorations (not background!) similar to legacy openSUSE theme for GNOME 2 :-)
Some things I have noticed:
- The Background behind the upper right corner desktop selection is just a square. Maybe that could be rounded.
- Could the ‘Loading’ indicator perhaps be replaced with a spinning Geeko Head?
- The brightess settings on the battery widget has no baseline/ruler
- There should be a spacing between window buttons on the taskbar (at least one or two px)
@jvetvicka
In K:D:F and Factory
@s_p_k
yeah, i am looking into that
@vasu
My idea was to have 3 schemes, the one presented, a lighter one, and a dark one
@Marcus
a) i know, also looking at that
b) not sure which indicator are you reffering to?
c) point a)
d) there is, at least on default panel
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I mean the busy indicator. E.g. you can set a bouncing cursor and window button as startup indicator. On window buttons (or on load of widgets like the desktop folder), a spinning ‘circle’ with something in the middle is shown. It would be great if this could be replaced with a schema of a geeko face.
How do I install this theme? What is the package called. I have KDE 4.10 from opensuse repos but I cannot find this theme.
Thanks.
You can download the theme from:
opensuse.ethz.ch/plasma/
openSUSE.zip is the plasma package and openSUSE.colors is the color scheme. The files have been extracted from factory 2012-11-28. There are no plans to update them regularly. If you want to take part in the theme development, I would suggest to set up a factory box, instead.
@Marcus, KenP, i adwise you to use the one from K:D:F, as that is more up to date, then the one in Factory
i think it looks brilliant, can’t wait to see opensuse 12.3 with this theme.
thank you.
I agree that the blue folders look out of place, though I certainly understand why they’re not green. (I wonder if a “glacial” scheme would work on the white background?)
But other than that, this looks like excellent work. :-)
Looks nice, although I don’t really understand why you didn’t simply choose Oxygen. It’s also dark and has the added bonus of being upstream — therefore probably better supported.
@Markus
a) IMHO Produkt looks better :-)
b) it is technically also upstream (found in kdeartwork), but i don’t think that really matters, as i doubt we would get support from upstream for this
Yesterday, I have tested KDE livecd and this theme looks amazing. But one thing I could never understand is blue or this time green glow around active windows. Simple black, set default for inactive windows, is much more professional. I also have hope that the login screen (KDM) will be created for multiple users.