Icons in Plasma Styles
In Plasma 5, the icons shown in various parts of Plasma widgets (but not apps) can come from one of two places: the active icon theme, or the active Plasma style. How do you the user know which icons come from which place? You can’t, not easily. What can you do if you apply a Plasma style and it includes weird icons that make your Plasma widgets look visually inconsistent with the rest of your system–but only partially? Nothing!
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For Plasma 6, we’re removing this questionable feature, and icons in Plasma widgets will always come from the systemwide icon theme. Much simpler, much more user-comprehensible, much better visual results 99% of the time.
I’ve tried to give Plasma a fair shot a few times, but, among other issues, I’m not a fan of Breeze and I found the theming functionality overwhelming and difficult to navigate. Mainly I could never figure out which themes certain elements were attached to. This is a big example and I’m glad to see them changing it.
This all seems very reasonable, it seems like the plasma team made the right decision to remove semi-broken / obsolete parts, but Unsplash removal because of AI scraping is a bit disappointing.
There is a wallpaper plugin that grabs pictures from subreddits of your choice, or probably was if they used Reddit’s API. Maybe one could port this to Lemmy or other services.
Can’t say that I’ve really used any of the features mentioned in this list, so doesn’t really affect my experience negatively. Also, updating some icon sets to fit with the overall theme would provide a more unified experience. So two thumbs-up from me for removing code that, by & large, wasn’t getting used, should help maintaining it in the long run.
Plasma is amazing. It has been my DE of choice for years now. So happy I’m donating to the project.
May you sleep well tonight and have a wonderful poop in the morning.
At first I wanted to “complain” about the removal of the thumbnails task switcher, because I prefer that one. But then I noticed that the thumbnail grid is the same and better! So if you were using what I, maybe the grid version is what you actually want.
Also, I love the concept that you can put back things that were removed from Plasma without building it all yourself.
I miss:
- old amarok
- actively developed oxygen qt style
- wallpaper per virtual desktop
- window tabs
- latte dock
- parachute
I will also miss:
- khotkeys
- plasma theme icons
- windowed widgets
- icon size settings
- some task switchers, I think
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For Amarok, have you tried Strawberry? It’s based on Amarok and looks pretty similar but it’s actually maintained.
I have used Clementine and Strawberry, great projects, but unfortunately I no longer have my old music collection, and rely on streaming services these days.
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