A Not-At-Quakecon Sergal 💔 @Adorable_Sergal@hachyderm.io
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Couldn't sleep. Spent the night mocking up a rough draft of a refresh of KDE's 2003-era "Keramik" theme.

Hearing the "Oxygen" theme is getting love reminded me of this often overlooked aesthetic. Everaldo's Crystal icons defined this era of Linux for many users.

I've a pretty good idea of where I want to take this look. There's a good, crisp dynamic between blue and yellow design elements that already exists in many Crystal icons. Crystal has obvious influences, but Keramik itself is a standout, with reliance on 3D-like elements I want to explore more of.

(note: this isn't functional, I have no idea how to make a real theme, I'm just an artist toying around in Inkscape)

A mock-up of a KDE Plasma desktop themed in an updated version of a light blue-dominant theme, called Keramik, with a file manager window floating in the centre of the frame displaying several folders and files within its viewport. The title bar is a light blue with translucent white striations running its length, and the window title itself occupies a rounded, darker blue concave plate attached to the left side of the bar, currently displaying "Dolphin". The program window's surface above the viewport is slightly wavy, the vaguely metallic/plastic window fill appearing to dip down into the screen's depth just below the titlebar, but swelling back up again when it meets the viewport, with navigation buttons and the address bar cutting through the topography. A remix of Everaldo's Crystal icons, featuring crisp, glass-like representations of file folders, stand out across the desktop, with the floating, slightly concave taskbar below displaying a classic KDE "K" menu icon with an upper-case blue "K" blended in wth a yellow gear. An LCD-like digital clock occupies the other end of the taskbar. Several icons are on the desktop itself for various games from yesteryear: Day of Defeat, Counter Strike, Quake, Deus Ex, and Unreal Tournament 2004.
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