QTCurve is indeed very versatile... But one should keep in mind that making
it default does not solve the main problem for a "solitaire" like user,
offering good defaults for a dark colour scheme. I support the idea of
having QTCurve installed by default... But not being default. One should
make a feature request for a usable kde dark theme... Rather than
delegating the responsibility on QTCurve.
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From: "Roger Luedecke" <roger.luedecke@gmail.com>
To: <opensuse-kde@opensuse.org>
Subject: [opensuse-kde] Replace Oxygen theme with QTCurve
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 18:46
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.
The issue with dark themes is not the color schemes, but the inability of
Oxygen to handle them correctly. QtCurve handles them gracefully. Besides,
QtCurve can afford a lot of eye candy that other themes can't. I think we
should have some good eye candy for the newbies to Linux and openSUSE. I
remember being a newbie, and the eye candy makes you want to keep looking.
Its the bait to snag users with. I have already begun working on a flashy but
elegant and usable QtCurve theme with a nice useful color scheme of green
accents. Quite frankly, I think there should be some effort to adapt QtCurve
into a proper theming engine as it is nearly standalone in its features. That
is not something to take up at this time I think.
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