Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[J. Roeleveld]

On Monday, April 11, 2016 11:34:03 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 09 April 2016 11:12:51 Mick wrote:
> > I noticed today that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon have
> > to deal with it.
>
> I saw that too, and it cast a gloom over the rest of my day. I intend to
> stick with KDE-4 until some more sensible themes become available in Plasma
> 5, so I hope someone will be keeping an archive of KDE-4 somewhere, as in
> the earlier case of KDE 3 -> 4.
>
> Last time I searched for Plasma 5 themes (or design methods, in case I might
> be able to create my own) I came up empty handed. My objection to the
> available one is that it's just ugly: acres of wasted space everywhere, and
> great blocks of solid colour, some of which are actually buttons without
> looking like them. Nothing subtle or sophisticated about it at all.
>
> If anyone can point me to a better theme I'll be grateful.

You could try the following:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/ocd-plasma5-theme?content=175772

I am not fully convinced, but then again, I quite like "Breeze Dark" with 
"Air" so far. But still looking for a really nice one. (My design skills are 
non-existent)

--
Joost