theme mixing

[Jens Reuterberg]

Well there was talk about some easy way to edit colors and spacing of 
individual SVG-files (I mean it IS reaaally complex to edit themes)... 
Might be worth looking into?

Pedro: I can only suggest that you try to edit them in Karbon instead 
of Inkscape since it contains a better sorting of objects in files. 
(although saving it is a pest in Karbon)

On Mon, 9 Feb, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
> 
> On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:10:12 Pedro Rosado wrote:
>>  I don't know if this is the right place, but I wanted to suggest 
>> something.
>> 
>>  KDE is by far the most modern and efficient desktop I've came to 
>> know (not
>>  dissing all the others), but regarding customization it's falling a 
>> little
>>  behind. Compared to gnome-look org, KDE look feels abandoned and 
>> there
>>  aren't many themes available at all, most are not even online 
>> anymore (host
>>  site doesn't have the file anymore). Most themes work like a charm 
>> on
>>  plasma 5, it's not like gnome that breaks a theme everytime it's 
>> updated.
>> 
>>  So, could the kde development theme  give end users a tool to 
>> combine or
>>  make their own themes with a user friendly interface? I've tried 
>> myself to
>>  make a kwin theme - only found despair and wasted time looking 
>> inside svg
>>  files (I'm an end user, not an IT guy :c  )
>>  Also, it would be nice to have all those themes shared if you want 
>> to, so
>>  that the whole community can use them. Instead of searching themes 
>> on the
>>  settings (that most times doesn't work because the files aren't 
>> hosted
>>  anymore at kde look.org), users could have this "customization" 
>> tool that
>>  allows users to search and create themes and share them into a repo 
>> or
>>  github so that anyone can find them and use them, independent of 
>> distro (as
>>  long as you are using kde)
>> 
>>  Summary:
>>  - Easy tool to make kwin and desktop themes for kde
>>  - Able to share and download the themes from the desktop app
>>  - kde kicks ass
> 
> You can mix-and-match workspace themes in systemsettings, go to 
> "Workspace
> Theme" -> "Desktop Theme" -> "Details". This allows you to combine 
> elements
> from different themes convienently in the UI. If that doesn't allow 
> you to do
> what you'd like to, it indeed comes down to managing SVG files and 
> combining
> them into a new theme. You've already found that out, it's a bit 
> fiddly, but
> so is anything advanced enough to satisfy the complex need for a 
> complete
> theming system.
> 
> As to the quality of kde-look.org, we cannot do much about it, since 
> it's a
> community-run site, which doesn't receive much love in terms of 
> maintainance
> and content curation, unfortunately.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
> 
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