Now KDE 4.1 is out, I’ve played around a bit with different themes. I’ve installed the KDE artwork package, and a couple of themes via GetHotNewStuff. KDE’s coloring system has seen quite a lot of love, as has Plasma’s theming engine. The results are quite impressive, as you can see in the screenshots.

First off, a bright setup with full-width, pretty standard panel. The Plasma theme used here is Aya, I’ve made the window background colors a bit lighter, just for more intense shininess. Those bright colors also go quite well with the “Glassified” color scheme, but I found it lacking some ‘whitespace’. The screenshot shows some integration bits as well, the context menu offers to install the package using Ubuntu’s gdebinstaller. The GTK+ theme blends in nicely with the colors I’ve set up. (Without me even tweaking it).

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