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Spot on. Plasma is complete crap but nobody will acknowledge it. I was a very passionate kde user (and have also contributed a lot to the code base). I have given up on KDE since the last 4 years or so. The oxygen theme is such an eye sore. The problem is it's sacrilege to question all these decisions in the "community" (whatever is left).

And also the constant rewrites is so annoying. First Qt4, then graphics view, now QML. I don't blame them. Who wants to maintain code anyway.

/me is happy cinnamon user.

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Really? I'd been under the impression I was the only KDE user left who actually liked the Oxygen widget theme. Everyone else seems to be cheerleading for the new look being shown off here (http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/plasma-main_0.jpg), which… uh… is the single lamest attempt to jump on the flat design bandwagon I've ever seen.

I guess you can't please everyone.

I find that image specifically to be a bit uninspired, but the other, more complete designs are actually pretty good IMO.

That said, I still like Oxygen, just not the taskbar design. I think they could have iterated on it and got a really really awesome and unique design. In there situation, I'd make the gradients a lot more subtle and smooth then work in more of the idea of lighting into the design. The icons could be abstracted a little more too.

I tried Cinnamon and used it for quite a while. But if you're not on Mint, it seems to break regularly. I didn't like KDE4 when it first came out, but now I'm loving it.

And if you don't like a theme... change it. Guh-nome and Unity don't really like to allow you to do that. I never liked the jellybean XP theme, and would change any of my XP machines to Win Classic theme. It seems an odd complaint to make for something that is easily changed. Complaints on the code side of things... fair enough.

Good to know. I have never seen breakage since I use mint :)

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