Where we are now... (VDG)

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Tuesday 13 May 2014 12:31:11 Marco Martin wrote:
> no, the framework repo needs at least one theme, the one with pluginname
> "default" since needs it in order to work and can't depend from an artwork
> repo for sure.

Okay, now I got it, it's about the framework which can be used outside the 
workspace.

> > > one thing is that in the first release most of the applications will be
> > > kde4 (probably even dolphin) so having a different oxygen theme in kde4
> > > and kf5 apps won't help much i think
> > 
> > As far as I know, the idea was to apply the Breeze color scheme and remove
> > the gradient from the next release of Oxygen (or create a new widget style
> > which is basically just Oxygen sans the gradient and choose that as
> > default) so that applications using it (both generation 4 and 5) would fit
> > into the overall design direction better.
> 
> if that's done also in the next 4.x release, that's fine

Which part of the 4.x release exactly do you mean? 
Applications don't decide for themselves which widget theme they use, do they? 
So people who use 4.14 with Plasma Workspaces 4.11 can still use Oxygen with 
the gradient and the default Oxygen color theme, whereas people who use Plasma 
Next with 4.14 applications can use the Breeze color theme plus Oxygen sans 
gradient for the same applications, can't they?
That way everything, including applications, would look "new" when run in 
Plasma Next compared to Plasma 4.11.
Or am I missing some technological restriction here?