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by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @19:27

I thought the Bespin code is largely the old Oxygen code that was rejected for poor performance, and for being a mess. If my choices are Oxygen and Bespin, I'll wait for more options. Oxygen is decent, but my hopes were set high with Pinheiro's incredible mockups.

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Quarticurve
by Kevin Kofler on Saturday 09/Feb/2008, @21:13

No, those aren't the only options. I have ported Bluecurve:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Quarticurve?content=59884
This is packaged in Fedora as qt4-theme-quarticurve.

A port of the Bluecurve KWin theme is also available:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Quarticurve-KWin+(for+KDE+3.96+)?content=59972
This is packaged in Fedora as quarticurve-kwin-theme.

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More KDE3 themes ported to KDE4
by Craig on Sunday 10/Feb/2008, @04:51

QtCurve (with a kwin decoration): http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=40492

Polyester: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=27968

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Re: More KDE3 themes ported to KDE4
by Bobby on Sunday 10/Feb/2008, @09:14

I actually like Qtcurve and Polester but I haven't tried Polester on KDE 4 as yet (I will try it later today). Anyway my favorite KDE 3.5x theme was Baghira which I still use. I like Bespin because it has a little reseblance to Baghira. I am still hoping to see some fresh, new and excited themes though. New KDE, new themes ;)

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Re: More KDE3 themes ported to KDE4
by Scott Knauert on Saturday 05/Apr/2008, @04:57

Please do make more classic themes for KDE4. I personally think that no matter how great the new UI is, there should always be a "make things look like the previous release" option for loyal users who liked the old theme. Especially since KDE4 is now much more customizable, this shouldn't be too hard.

My favorite widget and Kwin themes are: Karamik and Plastik

Ideally a KDE3 theme converter (so they all just work) or some instructions for contributors (I couldn't find any instructions on how to do a manual conversion myself) would be most appreciated.

Finally, dashboard widgets that more closely mimic the KDE3 K-Menu and panel would also be nice. Ideally all of this tied together with some default KDE4 classic theme option.

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Re: Bespin
by Bobby on Sunday 10/Feb/2008, @07:02

I don't know how good the code is but I am using Bespin for quite a while now and the performance seems to be quite good. Apart from that I like the subtle effects when one hover over the icons with the mouse and the dark menu background fits the KDE 4.0 desktop quite well but it seems to be somewhat half finished, something is still missing.
What's the present status of Pinheiro's work? Including Raptor?

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