Bug 211982

Summary:	Provide a more conservative theme
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	KDE Brainstorm Submissions <brainstorm>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	mystra.x64, rgb.mldc
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
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Description KDE Brainstorm Submissions 2009-10-26 21:24:22 UTC

Version: (using KDE 4.3.2)
Installed from: I Don't Know

Hi,

I'd really like to see a default theme installed with KDE4 that has a more conservative look, especially for the panel. My dream would be something that looks like the default Gnome panel. Most of all no transparency. Aya comes close to this but still has some transparency and some gradients that I'd like to get rid of. The theme "plain" that was once available on KDE-look and can still be found here: http://www.kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/83174-plain_06.tar.gz came even closer to what I'd imagine.

I know that some people really like all this transparency and background patterns and gradients but to me it's more confusing and gets in the way of my work. And I know I'm not alone here, many people at my work still choose the "Classic" Style for Windows XP.

But for KDE4 it's almost impossible to find a theme that doesn't use transparency and gradients at all nowadays (as I said, even Aya uses some)

My point is: it's ok, if "stylish" themes are developed for KDE4. It's even ok to make those default to show off. But it would be nice if it was really easy to change to a more conservative theme without having to search for themes or even modify existing themes.

Please think about this and thanks for all your effort.

This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=62789

Comment 1 rgb.mldc 2012-07-23 11:06:34 UTC

Old request, but still true. 

Right now, if you don't like transparency you need to manually install a theme like BigBlue(1) or Leichtsinn(2) (which are not complete and seems to not be maintained anymore) or going trough the process of customising every single element of the theme to select a non transparent svg(3). Doable, but not good for beginners. 

Maybe the easiest way is to provide a "non transparent" version for some themes where the opaque svg are always used, not only when there is no compositing. 

Maybe for someone who knows how svgs works (not my case) to provide this "parallel" theme where on each svg the transparency is turned off do not demand too much work.

(1) http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Big+Blue?content=129936
(2) http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Leichtsinn?content=143168
(3) http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=96664#p202971

Comment 2 Tenno Seremel 2012-07-23 13:00:59 UTC

>Maybe the easiest way is to provide a "non transparent" version for some themes where the opaque svg are always used

That would be so much easier if opaque versions were sensible. Which is not always the case.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:57:40 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham