Album of some recent changes to plasma-next
imgur.com/a/nHX8MPosted Jun 1, 2014, 2:18 AM UTC
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If there's one thing I don't like about KDE, it's the window styles. The single-gradient style of the window backgrounds looks just terrible.
I'm really excited about these changes, though.
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I dunno how I feel about KRunner being replaced. I really really really like KRunner.
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Milou has basicly all of the same features. It's also not a final change. Once the sprinter back end is finished, things might change.
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the thing in your screenshot is still called krunner.
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Functionally though, it resembles milou more than Krunner in my opinion.
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While I don't mind Oxygen (quite contrary), I do agree that it would be nice to have more higher quality options.
For me, all available Qt styles fail to go the last mile - they look great, until you notice one little thing that bothers you :)
(not only Qt styles, I haven't seen a single screenshot from any os that I was satisfied with)
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What? You don't like Keramik and Redmond? :)
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Oxygen and Breeze are both now available. If enoop updates, and wipes his ~/.kde5/kconf_updaterc he'll see the new theme hopefully.
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I have the both themes. This was all done on the latest project-neon iso run on a usb stick with my laptop.
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the one from Friday evening? That /should/ default to the Breeze theme. I spent half the day fixing that :S
Could you let me know if it didn't.
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Oh, whoops, I guess I did have a slightly out of date iso. I'll check out the latest one and see if it works. Sorry for the confusion.
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Yeah, on the latest project-neon iso, the widget style is now qtcurve, the color scheme is breeze, and the window decorations are oxygen.
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Whoops, replied to the wrong comment.
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I personally like the unified title bar and content look. But that is ready to theme.
The ui in the windows just send so... old. With the new plasma theme going flat with mono icons the applications just don't fit. And why, for the love of God, are we still cramming colored icons with text in the buttons?
Since this is being done piece by piece, I hope this is something that will be tackled.
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The default color scheme makes breeze the same color as the window if it's not active. I think it looks really nice myself. https://imgur.com/38bxVub
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any release date for this? KDE5?
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Plasma Next (not KDE5, as there's no KDE5) - which is a working name, not definitive - will be released some time (I don't have the dates handy) after KDE Frameworks 5 are officially released (the third beta of KF5 is coming up).
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KDE5 is KDE4 with everything rewritten from scratch and updated independently of each other. Since there will be few visible changes it will be called KDE4.
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It's actually not all rewritten from scratch whatsoever. It's using Qt5 and starting to replace some parts with new things like QML, as well as modularizing everything like you said.
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It's actually not all rewritten from scratch whatsoever. It's using Qt5 and starting to replace some parts with new things like QML, as well as modularizing everything like you said.
And to re-iterate, there is no KDE5
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New option allows you to disable window gradients
This has always been possible, but buried in some non-obvious location as a slider.
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When will those guys finally fix the fonts? They are so badly chosen and improperly sized it makes me cringe really, really hard.
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Fonts are usually defined by the distributions and I have to agree here. They often did a really bad job here. Starting with Plasma Next, certain font settings will be enforced by default to provide a better out-of-the-box look.
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Making KDE defaults less ugly, one thing at a time! Even Oxygen looks acceptable to me now :P
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There were also a few changes to the login theme.
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It seems that SDDM will replace KDM for plasma-next. The theme is for SDDM.
That is beautiful. :D