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I love that this exists and in fact in many ways prefer how it looks to the stock KDE theme, but it’s unfortunate that modification of KDE itself was necessary
by jwells89 3y ago
I love that this exists and in fact in many ways prefer how it looks to the stock KDE theme, but it’s unfortunate that modification of KDE itself was necessary to achieve this level of accuracy.
It underscores a more general frustration of mine of Linux DE theming in that it’s less flexible and capable than Kaleidoscope for classic Mac OS was, as a result of theming being somewhat tacked on even for DEs that pride themselves on flexibility (like KDE). Ideally, there’d be little that themes couldn’t be able to change about one’s desktop environment without invasive modifications.
- pxc 3y agoCould this theme be implemented 1:1 in Kaleidoscope, then?
- jwells89 3y agoIt’d get surprisingly close. The biggest issue would be 1-bit alpha preventing window transparency, but that’s more of a limitation of classic Mac OS than it is of kaleidoscope. Just about everything else including window chrome shape, titlebar and titlebar button positioning, widget theme, desktop icons, fonts, and cursor were under the full control of the theme’s artist. There were Kaleidoscope themes (“schemes”) that did wild things like round windows and vertical titlebars. Schemes mimicking other contemporary-and-older desktop environments (Win95/98, IRIX, NeXTSTEP, BeOS, etc) were pixel perfect.