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Modern light themes (white on white) suck. What is your favourite Plasma Theme? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I agree with @[email protected] a lot here.

I think a color scheme solves a lot, but the color gradients etc. are still gone.

What is your favourite non-white light theme, best for Plasma 6?

Please add a screenshot!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

This was the peak of light themes. Nothing is pure white except the parts with lots of text that needs to be very clear.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Agreed. Anyone got a KDE screenshot from that era?

konqueror

I have to say I like this one

Dolphin

Early KDE design was so weird, like transparency and Windows 95-ish rest? For sure!

strange

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I have to say I like this one
image

kde can still look like that too:

kde oxygen theme, plasma 5.27

i really hope oxygen does get ported to plasma 6, and not dropped like the air theme has been

i must say though, as much as i prefer the look of light themes usually, i think dark themes are objectively[^1] better unless you're in bright sunlight: images and video aren't affected by themes, so dark themes put the focus on the media, whereas light themes can wash them out

(current theme setup)

[^1]: this is conjecture, i haven't done any studies

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@Pantherina @smileyhead Where did early KDE have transparency?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Bottom left, third linked image?

I guess you are on mastodon which is the objectively worse platform haha, no markdown support

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I heard you like Windows 7... 😉 :

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's like the uncanny valley of Windows 7. So very close but not quite the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yes. I would like a theme based on the same principles as Windows 7 style, but not trying to minic the same look.