rekonq is not the default KDE browser, and is not shipped with the KDE Software Compilation or KDE Platform. Instead, it is a valued KDE-community-developed br

rekonq is not the default KDE browser, and is not shipped with the KDE Software Compilation or KDE Platform. Instead, it is a valued KDE-community-developed browser available from our "Extragear" repository. However I will say that even we at KDE are not opposed to configurability in general (especially to the extent listed for GNOME 3 and Unity... as far as I know we don't have a stick up our collective asses regarding the "brand experience"). But we have to maintain patches we accept (e.g. in the case of the task manager). LUCKILY we are quite happy to have even our core components ripped and replaced by something better. E.g. there is Craig Drummond's "Icon Tasks" taskbar available for Plasma (which I use). As far as SVG themes, that was a 10 steps forward, 1 step back kind of thing... overall the desktop is much improved by having those as an option, even if it makes it more difficult to implement color toning. But if someone were to submit a patch implementing "themed color variations" (so that you as a user could choose the "light" color, "dark" color, etc. and the rest of the theme remains unchanged) then I would be very surprised if that were to be rejected outright.