[opensuse-kde] Replace Oxygen theme with QTCurve
I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. Theming with QtCurve produces a much much more integrated feel between KDE and GTK apps. The extreme degree of versatility in configuration makes it a virtual theme creator. I have also found, that it seems to handle dark themes (ie. Wonton Soup or Obsidian) much more gracefully, actually allowing one to have a functional experience with dark themes. As many of you know, this has been a strong criticism of aesthetics in KDE. Example of Oxygen shortcoming in GTK arena is clear for anyone that uses firefox, as it does not maintain the background gradient, whereas QtCurve does. In future distributions I think we should include and set as default QtCurve. The beauty and integration is sure to wow those new to KDE and openSUSE. "You only have once to make a good first impression." Possibly the Agua2 theme with a gentle green color scheme. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On 26 May 2011 16:28, Roger Luedecke
wrote: I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. Theming with QtCurve produces a much much more integrated feel between KDE and GTK apps. The extreme degree of versatility in configuration makes it a virtual theme creator. I have also found, that it seems to handle dark themes (ie. Wonton Soup or Obsidian) much more gracefully, actually allowing one to have a functional experience with dark themes. As many of you know, this has been a strong criticism of aesthetics in KDE.
Personally, I have noticed that QtCurve is not as good at oxygen-gtk. But now you have got me interested in paying around with themes, so I'm going to check aain :)
Example of Oxygen shortcoming in GTK arena is clear for anyone that uses firefox, as it does not maintain the background gradient, whereas QtCurve does.
In future distributions I think we should include and set as default QtCurve. The beauty and integration is sure to wow those new to KDE and openSUSE. "You only have once to make a good first impression." Possibly the Agua2 theme with a gentle green color scheme. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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On 26/05/11 21:28, Roger Luedecke wrote:
I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. Theming with QtCurve produces a much much more integrated feel between KDE and GTK apps. The extreme degree of versatility in configuration makes it a virtual theme creator. I have also found, that it seems to handle dark themes (ie. Wonton Soup or Obsidian) much more gracefully, actually allowing one to have a functional experience with dark themes. As many of you know, this has been a strong criticism of aesthetics in KDE.
Example of Oxygen shortcoming in GTK arena is clear for anyone that uses firefox, as it does not maintain the background gradient, whereas QtCurve does.
In future distributions I think we should include and set as default QtCurve. The beauty and integration is sure to wow those new to KDE and openSUSE. "You only have once to make a good first impression." Possibly the Agua2 theme with a gentle green color scheme.
Since you bring up Firefox, try this, it allows all sorts of clever stuff including gradients: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+KDE+%28Firefox+Theme%29?content=... I can't tell if you are suggesting changing only the GTK styling or KDE+GTK -- if it is KDE+GTK, oxygen is the upstream default for KDE, there would have to be very strong reasons for changing. and IMO oxygen + oxygen-gtk + oxygen themes for mozilla apps looks great. Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On 26 May 2011 17:54, Tejas Guruswamy
wrote: Since you bring up Firefox, try this, it allows all sorts of clever stuff including gradients: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+KDE+%28Firefox+Theme%29?content=...
You sir, just found me a way to make Firefox look respectable within KDE :) Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On 26 May 2011 17:54, Tejas Guruswamy
wrote: Since you bring up Firefox, try this, it allows all sorts of clever stuff including gradients: http://kde- look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+KDE+%28Firefox+Theme%29?conte nt=117962 You sir, just found me a way to make Firefox look respectable within KDE :) Thank you. My objection to using this theme is that the theming engine should be the one handling system-style themes. I think that unless you want to personalize firefox or esp. another app it style should be uniform and handled by the
On Thursday, May 26, 2011 05:55:50 PM Steven Sroka wrote: theming engine of the DE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On 05/26/2011 04:28 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. Theming with QtCurve produces a much much more integrated feel between KDE and GTK apps. The extreme degree of versatility in configuration makes it a virtual theme creator. I have also found, that it seems to handle dark themes (ie. Wonton Soup or Obsidian) much more gracefully, actually allowing one to have a functional experience with dark themes. As many of you know, this has been a strong criticism of aesthetics in KDE.
Example of Oxygen shortcoming in GTK arena is clear for anyone that uses firefox, as it does not maintain the background gradient, whereas QtCurve does.
In future distributions I think we should include and set as default QtCurve. The beauty and integration is sure to wow those new to KDE and openSUSE. "You only have once to make a good first impression." Possibly the Agua2 theme with a gentle green color scheme.
+1 Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
[ Comments below, in line ] On Thursday 26 May 2011 at 4:28 pm, Roger Luedecke penned about "[opensuse-kde] Replace Oxygen theme with QTCurve"
I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. [ snipped ]
Given all the +1's, I thought I'd give QtCurve a try and I concur. It's very impressive. I love all the presets. It makes it all so easy. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Hello On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:28:12 -0700, Roger Luedecke wrote:
I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. Theming with QtCurve produces a much much more integrated feel between KDE and GTK apps. The extreme degree of versatility in configuration makes it a virtual theme creator. I have also found, that it seems to handle dark themes (ie. Wonton Soup or Obsidian) much more gracefully, actually allowing one to have a functional experience with dark themes. As many of you know, this has been a strong criticism of aesthetics in KDE.
Example of Oxygen shortcoming in GTK arena is clear for anyone that uses firefox, as it does not maintain the background gradient, whereas QtCurve does.
In future distributions I think we should include and set as default QtCurve. The beauty and integration is sure to wow those new to KDE and openSUSE. "You only have once to make a good first impression." Possibly the Agua2 theme with a gentle green color scheme.
Is there a feature request for that change? https://features.opensuse.org/ It's IMHO only one possibility how to change it. ;-) If not, create it, advertise and hope. :-) Best regards! Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:21:53 PM Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Hello
On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:28:12 -0700, Roger Luedecke wrote:
I have found that QTCurve is vastly more impressive. Theming with QtCurve produces a much much more integrated feel between KDE and GTK apps. The extreme degree of versatility in configuration makes it a virtual theme creator. I have also found, that it seems to handle dark themes (ie. Wonton Soup or Obsidian) much more gracefully, actually allowing one to have a functional experience with dark themes. As many of you know, this has been a strong criticism of aesthetics in KDE.
Example of Oxygen shortcoming in GTK arena is clear for anyone that uses firefox, as it does not maintain the background gradient, whereas QtCurve does.
In future distributions I think we should include and set as default QtCurve. The beauty and integration is sure to wow those new to KDE and openSUSE. "You only have once to make a good first impression." Possibly the Agua2 theme with a gentle green color scheme.
Is there a feature request for that change? https://features.opensuse.org/ It's IMHO only one possibility how to change it. ;-) If not, create it, advertise and hope. :-) Best regards! Vojtěch The feedback on this idea has been pretty positive so I may make a ffeature request and then post it here, unless somebody would like to go ahead and make the feature request. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
participants (6)
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Pablo Sanchez
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Roger Luedecke
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Roman Bysh
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Steven Sroka
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Tejas Guruswamy
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Vojtěch Zeisek