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Care to explain why for the non design folks?

It looks very "Linux" from however long ago - that is, poor and inconsistent spacing, hodge-podge of icons (especially overcomplicated ones), frugal padding, etc. It's a common look for open source stuff. Doesn't really have and stick with a design language.

For some people, that will seem really jarring and uncomfortable.

Go try modern Plasma (5.3, 5.4 in a few months) and only use the shell and its widgets.

Those are what the VDG has made so far, there have been UI mockups for a lot of software from the file manager to software center that are leaps and bounds better than what are in place, but the manpower in general KDE is really lacking to keep up with the VDG's mockups to actually implement them.

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