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Elegance

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Description:

Élégance is an effort to make an elegant theme for plasma.

Last changelog:

12 years ago

0.7:
- New realistic clock!
- New background for widgets and dialogs (full SVG)
- Shutdown dialog improved

0.6:
- New panel background and tasks backgrounds (full SVG now)
- Shutdown dialog updated
- System tray background added

0.5:
- Updated clock so that it is well rendered now
- Adapted tasks for KDE 4.1
- Improved shutdown dialog
- Added translucent background and krunner panel
- Added corners to panel background

0.4:
- Colors config file updated
- Taskbar theme
- Logout window theme

0.3:
- Icon theme completed
- Clock and panel background improved
- Tooltips theme added

0.2:
- Clock theme
- Battery Monitor theme

0.1:
- widget background
- panel background
- icons theme

TODO:
- (opaque theme)
- containment-controls.svg

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kossebau
1 year ago

For people using Plasma 5.16, you can restore the clock hands to be properly pinned to the center again like in KDE4, by adding this snippet before the final "" in the widgets/clock.svg file:

kossebau
1 year ago

Sniff, the xml got simply wiped by the comment system on pressing "Send".
See https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=160651&p=416931#p416965 then instead

donbcilly
1 year ago

I put the whole updated clock here :·) https://www.pling.com/p/1320845/

donbcilly
1 year ago

10 Best clock ever

raist356
2 years ago

3 - it is for unsupported KDE4

darinsmiller
3 years ago

9 Looks great on Plasma 5!

mamiemando
4 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for this very nice theme, congratulations! However, I have some remarks :)

1) Some icons are missing (ex: amarok in the tooltip box).
2) Hovered and Attention tasks could shine a little bit more.

Remarks related to (1) :

- By default, elegance seems to use breeze as fallback. But breeze icons in the tooltip are just... not elegant :) Moreover, and some icons (like amarok) are missing.

- One could specifically set another theme like air or oxygen. But here again, some icons are missing, like the checkboxes in network-manager panel.

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Debian stretch, elegance 0.7

matrs5
9 years ago

Very good theme, my favorite, but i have a problem with light color buttons. Since elegance has a white font, some widgets (like translatoid) or other plasma components have some white or very light color buttons, so button's content isn't properly displayed there.

boky01
5 years ago

Hi,

The following workaround will do the trick:
Open /home/username/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme/Elegance/dialogs/colors file.
Find [Colors:Button] section in the file and set ForegroundNormal=x,y,z to a dark RGB number such as 0,0,0. Restart your computer and the buttons will be visible.

themage
9 years ago

....but for one item.

Even with the latest version (0.7) the shutdown dialogue does not display correctly.

All other themes that I have installed display the correct width, thus the graphic (ie. the moon image is displayed).

If it weren't for that I'd give it a 10, as it stands 9.5.

Chees.

MrBumpy4096
11 years ago

I really like the elegant theme on my system without compositing. The only problem is the "more" button on plasma notifications is light grey and the text that goes on it is also light grey, so it is unreadable.

MrBumpy4096
11 years ago

I should have mentioned that I'm using KDE 4.3.1.

MrBumpy4096
11 years ago

Okay, so I fixed the problem myself by copying the button pixmap from the BlackGlass theme (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=110034). I also fixed the shutdown dialog for KDE 4.3. You can download my fix here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzemmyzdhyt

google01103
11 years ago

when tray icons are hidden there should be an expander button on the left of the tray which there is not, though the functionality of expanding to show hidden icons does work if the area is clicked

kneczaj
11 years ago

The shuddown/logout dialogs in your theme are ugly. I don't know it's a bug in kde or your theme, but for me it looks like: http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4012/screenshotn.png
It would be a lot better if the picture was at the left of buttons.

MrBumpy4096
11 years ago

Hey, I fixed it myself by removing the power logo from the dialog. My fix also corrects the problem where buttons were unreadable under KDE 4.3. Anyway, you can download my fix here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzemmyzdhyt

goona
12 years ago

Under kde 4.2 beta1 the svg's for the tasks seems to be broken. Is this a known problem?

jamboarder
11 years ago

the version distributed with the betas were out of date. The version of Elegance distributed with KDE 4.2 has been updated to match latest version here.

This is a great theme, that looks great with KDE 4.2.

raulnds
12 years ago

Personally, I liked the old clock better =)

marenz
10 years ago

Elegance is my definitive choice of theme. Is, as the name implies, 'elegant' and very good looking.
The only thing I would change too is the clock; it doesn't quite match the theme.
A simpler clock, in black or dark background, maybe with some transparency would match better.

Still, congratulations on a great work.

hash87
12 years ago

Same here :P IMO the new clock is overwhelming. I really liked the old clock as it used to be simple and really nice ;)

sylpheed
11 years ago

One more vote for the old clock! It was plain and elegant, whereas the new one looks like a horror flick prop.

ireko
12 years ago

I very very like it! This background.svg is perfect! Very inspiring :)

PARENA
12 years ago

I like 0.7 a lot better than the previous versions. Way nicer. And the analog clock is a nice touch, though somewhat messy if it's too small. Going to use it now and see if it will finally replace Oxygen. :)

szederjei
12 years ago

One question: what font did you use in the pictures?

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12 years ago

0.7:
- New realistic clock!
- New background for widgets and dialogs (full SVG)
- Shutdown dialog improved

0.6:
- New panel background and tasks backgrounds (full SVG now)
- Shutdown dialog updated
- System tray background added

0.5:
- Updated clock so that it is well rendered now
- Adapted tasks for KDE 4.1
- Improved shutdown dialog
- Added translucent background and krunner panel
- Added corners to panel background

0.4:
- Colors config file updated
- Taskbar theme
- Logout window theme

0.3:
- Icon theme completed
- Clock and panel background improved
- Tooltips theme added

0.2:
- Clock theme
- Battery Monitor theme

0.1:
- widget background
- panel background
- icons theme

TODO:
- (opaque theme)
- containment-controls.svg

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donbcilly May 14 2019 10 the best

Best clock ever

raist356 Nov 26 2018 3 bad

- it is for unsupported KDE4

darinsmiller Sep 30 2017 9 excellent

Looks great on Plasma 5!

Nicko0469 Apr 24 2017 9 excellent

5teviewonders Oct 05 2016 9 excellent

macumbaXXX Jul 28 2016 3 bad

lantek Apr 20 2012 9 excellent

kazuspara Apr 20 2012 9 excellent

originalseed Nov 27 2011 9 excellent

abalint21 Nov 13 2011 9 excellent

Ignatz Jul 07 2011 9 excellent

fasshit Jun 02 2011 9 excellent

8Ypsilon May 17 2011 9 excellent

e1nste1n Mar 05 2011 3 bad

zsoltika Feb 23 2011 3 bad

nazir Feb 10 2011 9 excellent

ribugent Jan 30 2011 3 bad

agaya Dec 16 2010 9 excellent

yanightmare Dec 11 2010 9 excellent

melanias Nov 12 2010 9 excellent

drmlsc Nov 01 2010 3 bad

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