Description: My first experience with Plasma themes. I created this in lack of finding a theme to my liking, which I wanted to include: An elegant and thin widget design, flat panels without gradients, transparent backgrounds, and most of all support for custom colors. Since Androbit is a beautiful theme and freely licensed, I decided to modify it into something that would fit those characteristics.
Colorbit is a theme based on Androbit with several modifications. Gradients have been removed from panel backgrounds while maintaining detail and the same elegant design. Transparency was set to 50% on all backgrounds for good visibility with Blur compositing, and 75% when blur or desktop effects are off. Panels and widgets use system colors, matching the same appearance as Oxygen and Oxygen Transparent with any color scheme. I also included the flat icons from the Breathe theme, modifying new ones to match their appearance.
Original Androbit theme by Makay József, licensed GPL: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=123524
Breathe icon theme by BugsBane, licensed GPL: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=133873
I also used the power button icon by darrenbeck, licensed P http://openclipart.org/detail/173106/power-button-by-darrenbeck-173106
The modifications in Colorbit were done by me (MirceaKitsune) and this theme is also licensed GPL.Last changelog:
Changelog
v1.0 (15-02-2013):
- Initial release.
v1.1 (13-03-2013):
- Optimized for KDE 4.10.
- Removed transparent gradient shadows for opaque elements, as KDE is not meant to render those without compositing.
- Made the analog clock less shiny and transparent for more clarity.
v1.2 (15-07-2013):
- Fix opaque elements, which went unnoticed due to previous versions of KDE not applying them properly.
v1.3 (02-08-2013):
- Make button.svg transparent. Fixes white text over white button when using a dark color scheme (which was unreadable).
- Optimize glow effects and make widget design slightly more matte.
- Different brightness between "hover" and "selected" windows on the task manager.
v1.4 (27-11-2013):
- Replace or tweak a few widget elements.
v1.5 (14-09-2014):
- Add icons for the new network manager widget.
- Further reduce glow on panels, to maintain a nice flat style.
- Compress all svg files to svgz, to make the theme as light as possible.
v1.6 (25-10-2015):
- Colorize background elements correctly using ColorScheme classes, instead of using a hint.
v1.7 (02-06-2017):
Use correct element format in panel-background, old one still included for consistency as panel-background-old. Remove custom icons, as I cannot keep them up to date against changes in the software.
10The Colorbit window decorations are a 10/10 for me, but the Colorbit plasma theme has some light blue accents like the slider bars and text field that would look better if they followed system colors. Still giving it a 10 since I have a huge appreciation for themes with a glassy/acrylic look and extensively follow user set colors (all of which are rare to find as well executed as this)
http://openclipart.org/detail/173106/power-button-by-darrenbeck-173106
Ratings & Comments
4 Comments
10 The Colorbit window decorations are a 10/10 for me, but the Colorbit plasma theme has some light blue accents like the slider bars and text field that would look better if they followed system colors. Still giving it a 10 since I have a huge appreciation for themes with a glassy/acrylic look and extensively follow user set colors (all of which are rare to find as well executed as this)
10 Very nice work! I love it!
theme looks ok, but what is this blue color scheme?
I believe I used a custom color scheme when I made the screenshot. It looks better with other colors so try out different ones.