https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429280
Bug ID: 429280 Summary: no colour-coded/'alternative' theme Product: plasmashell Version: 5.20.3 Platform: Neon Packages OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk Reporter: dchme...@gmail.com CC: plasma-b...@kde.org Target Milestone: 1.0 SUMMARY Apparently Oxygen theme was deprecated, but that's bad for users; we're not in the monochrome monitor age, which Breeze is inspired by, but sadly is the main theme. Oxygen had colour-coded logout/reboot/shutdown/etc., coloured icons, that made things distinctive. Users sometimes talk to me saying they may want to shutdown, then what icon do they press: log out, restart or shut down? They may be looking through the system tray asking me which is the icon they are looking for. Colour helped them; Breeze doesn't as much. Even experiments with other [sign-]language-using apes, they use colour icons... maybe in an experiment if rats could use a touchscreen rather than levers, monochrome might be okay... but humans aren't rats. It takes me 10 times longer to get through a Breeze logout/reboot/shutdown option screen than ones normal in the coloured-monitor-style age. When I had to reinstall users' spare PC, suddently most the icons were missing (/home wasn't reinstalled, of course.) I also liked the old KDE4 Produkt panel theme: in contrast, Oxygen & Breeze Dark aren't dark enough at night--too shiny. Since we use more widgets/system-tray things, I always finding myself copying over the old klipper icon (before it was scissors as my suggestion, as I don't keep a text-editor icon by clipboard anymore)... STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Look for more-coloured theme/icon set. 2. Can't find one. 3. Install one or miss out unless you're colour-blind. OBSERVED RESULT Not so great choice of themes/icons, leads to problems (finding) and much wasted time. EXPECTED RESULT KDE usually has more options than other desktop environments... Crystal and Oxygen were best. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Neon/5.20.3 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.