Balance between shine and productivity

[nabalzs]

Hello!
For me the default settings, and the oxygen theme engine is a little bit too shiny. Could somebody help me how to make KDE 4.10 more elegant? For example Windows 7 gives me a phenomenal balance between usability and shine, though it looks good, I don't want my desktop to have the same appearance. I have tried several qtcurve and bespin themes, but for they looked like a kind of mixture of shine, elegancy, and old-fashioned (dated) things. And also, bespin didn't gave me a united look across qt and gtk apps, like oxygen or qtcurve did.
I really thank for your help! Or is there a way to apply gtk themes to kde apps?

[Teunis]

GTK is on the way out.
You seem to notice the difference between GTK and QT applications, going all QT would be the logic solution as KDE is QT based.
Do realise beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
Like I am very happy with an almost bog-standard Oxygen theme with Oxygen-gtk.
The last non=QT programs I use are Thunderbird and Firefox, the first is for many people easily replaced by Kmail and Knode, for the last there is a Oxygen theme (not ready for FF23).

For a more helpful reply you need to specify what you consider acceptable shine, elegance or dated and what is hurting your senses.

[whatthefunk]

Open up System Settings and play around with the options in Application Appearance and Workspace Appearance. You can download new themes, color schemes, icons, and window decorations.

[Shabakthanai]

An attempt at an attractive desktop.

[Buddlespit]

An attempt at an attractive desktop.

How did you get rid of the desktop toolbox?!?!?!

[SteveRiley]

How did you get rid of the desktop toolbox?!?!?!

What, this thing?



It's just a folder widget. Point to it with your mouse, and a fly-out menu will appear as you can see in the screenshot. Click the encircled X, and rejoice as it vanishes.

[SteveRiley]

For me the default settings, and the oxygen theme engine is a little bit too shiny.

Try a little steel wool on your monitor. For best results, I'd recommend a high quality 000# grade.

LOL

[Buddlespit]

I looked closer at Shabakthanai's image, and his is in the lower left. I started playing with my tab and found I cam move it to a corner and make it smaller...

[Rog132]

The desktop toolbox / the cashew

- It is movable
- Hide it: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=147892

[dmeyer]

...for the last there is a Oxygen theme (not ready for FF23).

Not true as of a few days ago:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=117962

[Buddlespit]

The desktop toolbox / the cashew

- It is movable
- Hide it: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=147892

Nice! Thank you!

[woodsmoke]

I dunno about the thing about the size of the desktop folder and the control panel.

For me I just drag it to resize it to a convenient size, and the panel switches from side to side depending upon which side of the monitor the desktop folder is on, same for other widgets.

The size of the panel "MAY" be fixed because the average person may need a "minimal" size to hit the X with a mouse and stuff. Dunno.

woodsmoke