You know, I really love the idea of KDE, their philosophy and recent developments and progress they've made... but I've tried KDE 4.1 and I can't make myself use it. Its superficial but I think its their visual style that I find somewhat off-putting.
I wish I had the time/drive and visual design skills to build a complete KDE 4.x theme, something far visually smaller, simpler and more minimalistic than what they have. I really like Google Chrome's motto ("Content not Chrome"), but haven't found a KDE look to satisfy that. The default ubuntu theme is also bad from this perspective, but it can be brought under control with this: http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/11/04/clearlooks-compact-gnome...
Get Cloudcity, made by the same guy who made Baghira, Thomas Lubking. http://cloudcity.sourceforge.net/. Best KDE theme, period. You have to compile it from source, but it's definitely my favorite KDE4 theme. Much cleaner than Oxygen. I just wish the KDE guys would do more to support it.
You know, I really love the idea of KDE, their philosophy and recent developments and progress they've made... but I've tried KDE 4.1 and I can't make myself use it. Its superficial but I think its their visual style that I find somewhat off-putting.
I wish I had the time/drive and visual design skills to build a complete KDE 4.x theme, something far visually smaller, simpler and more minimalistic than what they have. I really like Google Chrome's motto ("Content not Chrome"), but haven't found a KDE look to satisfy that. The default ubuntu theme is also bad from this perspective, but it can be brought under control with this: http://martin.ankerl.com/2007/11/04/clearlooks-compact-gnome...