Hi everyone!
I wanted to share 2 icon themes for updating the look of TDE:
-Crystal SVG Updated
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2sm4lju0j1ap/n/crystalsvg_zip
This icon theme comes from PCLOS MiniME 2008 (KDE 3.5.x). I don't know if
it is an official update of the old Crystal SVG or a theme made by the
PCLOS team, but it is a more modern version of it.
-Oxygen for KDE3
http://www.filefactory.com/file/5w394u74iua9/n/oxy-tde_zip
This is the theme used in my PCLinuxOS TDE non-official remaster. It comes
from
kde-look.org
I personally think that keeping the old Crystal SVG theme as the default
theme is not good for the TDE project. The people who haven't used TDE will
think that it is always the same old project as KDE3. It just looks too old
and of course, the more actual Oxygen icon theme will go this way one day
or another, but as of now, I think that it would be a good idea for TDE to
use Oxygen or another icon theme, at least this updated version of Crystal
SVG.
The same idea goes with the general theme. We aren't used to the
''vanilla KDE 3.5.10'' these days. Themes with big lines separating GUI
elements aren't used anymore and even during the KDE 3.5.x days, almost
no distros used the default theme.
This is just my personal opinion...
-Alexandre
One of the main reasons I gave up on KDE4 was that all of the easily viewable
icon themes of KDE3 had been dropped in favour of low-contrast pastel icons,
which my ageing eyes have trouble distinguishing. I really don't see
anything wrong with good ol' hi-color classic. Why change a good thing?
Leslie