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Re: "Classic" theme
by Grósz Dániel on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @06:37

"SVGs were a great choice"

SVG is great. The only problem is that in some places they used custom SVGs even where normal Qt widgets could have been used.

"it's all just artwork now"

As Luciano wrote, Oxygen is not the only theme, and some themes also have several settings (e. g. Domino in KDE 3 or QtCurve can look many different ways depending on settings). If we want a Plasma theme consistent with the other parts of the system, we need one that blends well integrates with whatever widget style the user selects. As widget styles are programmed (AFAIK), this is not possible if Plasma themes are just artwork (no code). So we need different Plasma themes corresponding to every widget style but that would be very much pointless redundant work and it is not likely to happen.

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Re: "Classic" theme
by Andrew Lake (jamboarder) on Saturday 22/Mar/2008, @07:29

Fair points.

As a theme author I'll do my best to come up with themes that, while they admittedly may not adequately address the points above, will hopefully work reasonably well different styles.

peace,
Andrew

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Re: "Classic" theme
by Riddle on Wednesday 26/Mar/2008, @08:03

The Aya theme is supposed to be "color sensitive". Also, the CSS3 "appearance" option should allow for perfect intergration (how good is Plasma's CSS?).

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Re: "Classic" theme
by yman on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @08:38

Perhaps the solution is that those who make themes make them in pairs of desktop and window themes? That way, they'd look the same but you can also mix and match.

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