Well there was talk about some easy way to edit colors and spacing of
individual SVG-files (I mean it IS reaaally complex to edit themes)...
Might be worth looking into?
Pedro: I can only suggest that you try to edit them in Karbon instead
of Inkscape since it contains a better sorting of objects in files.
(although saving it is a pest in Karbon)
On Mon, 9 Feb, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote:
Hi Pedro,
On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:10:12 Pedro Rosado wrote:
I don't know if this is the right place, but I wanted to suggest
something.
KDE is by far the most modern and efficient desktop I've came to
know (not
dissing all the others), but regarding customization it's falling a
little
behind. Compared to gnome-look org, KDE look feels abandoned and
there
aren't many themes available at all, most are not even online
anymore (host
site doesn't have the file anymore). Most themes work like a charm
on
plasma 5, it's not like gnome that breaks a theme everytime it's
updated.
So, could the kde development theme give end users a tool to
combine or
make their own themes with a user friendly interface? I've tried
myself to
make a kwin theme - only found despair and wasted time looking
inside svg
files (I'm an end user, not an IT guy :c )
Also, it would be nice to have all those themes shared if you want
to, so
that the whole community can use them. Instead of searching themes
on the
settings (that most times doesn't work because the files aren't
hosted
anymore at kde look.org), users could have this "customization"
tool that
allows users to search and create themes and share them into a repo
or
github so that anyone can find them and use them, independent of
distro (as
long as you are using kde)
Summary:
- Easy tool to make kwin and desktop themes for kde
- Able to share and download the themes from the desktop app
- kde kicks ass
You can mix-and-match workspace themes in systemsettings, go to
"Workspace
Theme" -> "Desktop Theme" -> "Details". This allows you to combine
elements
from different themes convienently in the UI. If that doesn't allow
you to do
what you'd like to, it indeed comes down to managing SVG files and
combining
them into a new theme. You've already found that out, it's a bit
fiddly, but
so is anything advanced enough to satisfy the complex need for a
complete
theming system.
As to the quality of kde-look.org, we cannot do much about it, since
it's a
community-run site, which doesn't receive much love in terms of
maintainance
and content curation, unfortunately.
Cheers,
--
sebas
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