Plasma 5 is a theming nightmare

[67GTA]

I currently have a love hate relationship with plasma 5. Breeze looks okay, but I prefer a dark theme. Breeze dark is really buggy (especially icons). Gnome app theming is horribly broken because the Gnome devs like to break things every new release so breeze-gtk doesn't even come close to oxygen-gtk. Dolphin is still not ported to KDE5, so it doesn't follow system colors/themes. Trying to implement a system wide theme/color is a nightmare. Anyone else want to pull their hair out over this?

Oh yeah. I just remembered I don't have any hair.

[life0riley]

Yes. I would like more themes. I tried installing oxygen dark and it nearly broke it. Hopefully there more options in the next release.

[SteveRiley]

Blissfully, good old Oxygen -- with its visually distinctive (and therefore superior) control surfaces -- is still available.

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post372412

[life0riley]

I'll try it again. I had some issues with black screen, slowness, other misbehavior that felt like incompatibility issues.

[SteveRiley]

I'm using regular Oxygen -- not Oxygen dark. No problems at all.

[life0riley]

OK. Installed again and seems to be working OK. Last time I didn't install the oxygen-cursor-theme. This time I did. Thanks

[life0riley]

I seem to only have oxygen dark available. For window decorations I only have org.kde.breeze and Plastik. In spite of that, it is much easier to read mail now and all together easier on the eyes.

[SteveRiley]

Here, all in System Settings

* Workspace theme -> Look and Feel: Oxygen
* Workspace theme -> Desktop Theme: Air
* Workspace theme -> Cursor Theme: {pick your favorite}
* Color -> Scheme: Oxygen
* Icons -> Icons -> Theme: Oxygen
* Application Style -> Widget Style -> Applications -> Widget style: Oxygen
* Application Style -> Window Decorations: org.kde.oxygen
* Application Style -> GNOME Application Style -> GTK2 theme: oxygen-gtk
* Application Style -> GNOME Application Style -> GTK3 theme: oxygen-gtk
* Application Style -> GNOME Application Style -> Icon theme: Oxygen

[life0riley]

It looks much better. Thanks.
The only thing I am really missing is Application Style -> Window Decorations: org.kde.oxygen
There is a post about it here.
I have Plasma 5.2, and org.kde.oxygen is available in plasma 5.3.

[SteveRiley]

Whoops! Forgot to list the package kwin-decoration-oxygen. I updated my other post with this information, too. You'll need to add the Kubuntu backports PPA to obtain this package.

[life0riley]

Yep. Have that installed now and desktop looks good.
In Plasma 3 About System was moved from System Settings to the KDE Info Center