On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Luca Beltrame wrote:

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

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This is a great contribution. Revamping or updating visual styles on our desktop has been a concern for some time in our team. We will be sure to test and recommend. Thank you Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On 29/11/12 01:32, Luca Beltrame wrote:

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

personally i think its pretty bad. - it is too dark making the persons colour perception darker thus think your images and photos are brighter than they actually are. - the windows are in no way connected with the desktop, thus giving the impression that openSUSE is not a solid OS, instead its cobbled together by many different systems - the theme itself is not all that interesting at all, like staring at a concrete wall painted black, flat and and noting of interest - A good theme is constant from wallpaper to icons in this there is no real consistency, the icons are all different sizes, colours are not maintained, the general feel of the theme is not maintained. So please go over these points, until these aspects are maintained the theme should not be used as it will create a far too distracting experience for the user, concentrating on the looks and not on their work, and i know alot of people who judge distros by their looks alone (yes that is stupid :S, but thats how it is). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org