Hello everyone, this mail is meant to present and discuss the work done by a number of openSUSE contributors for a new visual style for KDE. A number of weeks ago, people in the #opensuse-kde channel started hacking on a new theme for KDE, which should have sported the iconic green of the distro. Alin suggested during a discussion to base the work on the Produkt theme[1]. At that point, the openSUSE contributor shumski (as he's known in IRC) started working on that, also taking a look at the icon set needed for the theme. Due to the KDE team's decision of bringing the 4.10 version of the KDE Platform, Applications and Workspaces for 12.3, shumski also made adjustments to handle the slight differences that took place between 4.9 and 4.10 with regards to theming. A very early draft was published in my blog[2] since I wanted to make the process hopefully open and communicate to the community what those people were doing. The overall impressions were positive and work continued. Recently, this theme was also pushed to KDE:Distro:Factory and then to Factory itself as one of the possible candidate themes for 12.3. I also blogged showing the new look[3]. At this point, we felt necessary to gather the feedback of a larger part of the openSUSE contributors, hence this mail. We're interested in how this can be integrated with the ongoing work of the artwork team and in general taking account of all feedback, good or bad. So, give it a spin (it is in KDE:Distro:Factory or Factory itself, the KDF version is however more up to date) and let us know what you think. At the moment this theme is the default opensuse branding theme for KDE (so you will get it with the *-branding-openSUSE KDE packages). P.S.: Apologies for the list cross-posting, but I wanted to gather every stakeholder in tihs. [1] http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=124213 [2] http://www.dennogumi.org/2012/10/whats-cooking-for-kde-in-opensuse-12-3- theming [3] http://www.dennogumi.org/2012/11/new-theme-for-opensuse-12-3-is-now-in -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79