RFC: Theming and styles of KDE applications

[christoph at cullmann.io]

On 2024-05-04 21:56, Akseli Lahtinen wrote:
> On Saturday 4 May 2024 14:47:35 GMT+3 christoph at cullmann.io wrote:
>> My proposal: we enforce Breeze as icon set and style everywhere. And 
>> we
>> provide still a way to overwrite that for the user, but if the user
>> didn't set something manually,  idenpendent what the system propose, 
>> we
>> just use Breeze. And we depend on that as dep e.g. in Kate, if you
>> install Kate, that icon set and theme is installed.
> 
> +1. For me as someone who changes icons sometimes just to see and 
> tinker
> around,
> i think this makes sense. We have reliable fallback, but we still allow
> users to customize things which is, well, our thing! :)
> 
> And if the custom icons break i do not end up with broken apps, so
> i really do not see any downside here, as user or dev perspective.

Yes, if some user switches a theme or style in our system settings
or in the application (like we do it with the color scheme switcher some
applications like Kate have) that is fine.

But beside that, we should just force our default style and icon set,
like we do on Windows and macOS already, that will even make some 
patches
and ifdef's useless we need now to sprinkle in all apps we really 
support on
these platforms.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> - Akseli
> 
> ps. I am bad with mailing lists, lets hope this sends to right place 
> lol