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Élégance is an effort to make an elegant theme for plasma.
Last changelog:

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


Ratings & Comments

67 Comments

kossebau

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

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

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

donbcilly

10 Best clock ever

raist356

3 - it is for unsupported KDE4

darinsmiller

9 Looks great on Plasma 5!

mamiemando

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. --- Debian stretch, elegance 0.7

matrs5

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

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

....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

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

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

MrBumpy4096

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

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

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

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

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

jamboarder

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

Personally, I liked the old clock better =)

marenz

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

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

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

ireko

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

PARENA

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

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

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