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Description
Soon after the launch of Plasma 6, many contributors requested updates for the visuals in the new Plasma Desktop. Touted as a stability release, Plasma 6 evolved to be more consistent, more bug-free than predecessors. The only thing missing from the release was a refreshed style.
Taking this feedback into consideration, a small team of designers from the team took to review and create a few exciting changes for the current visual style.
The team worked on creating:
- A graphical design system
- New color selection
- New font selection with specific sizes
- New grids and spacing system
- New editing workflow using Figma and Penpot
- Updating all 22px icons to a 24px size
- New shadows and blurs
- In addition to these, new components such as buttons, dropdowns, toggles, checkboxes, tooltips, progress indicators, sliders, badges, inputs.
We would like to provide a preview to the community of all of these changes and gauge interest. We would like to request the developer community for their help.
We also would like to follow up with a couple of BoFs to see how we could execute some of these elements given our constraints.
Above all, we believe in moving our visual style forward. We want to give our users a consistent look that helps them achieve the most they can using our systems.
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Many thanks to Helden Hoierman, @manueljilin, @PhilipB, @depman, @Akseli, @Natalie Clarius, @nathanu, @DSLitvinov who have contributed so much to this project.
Social Links
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Biography
Andy Betts is a long time KDE contributor. Andy leads the Visual Design Team at KDE and is also a member of the Community Working Group. Additionally Andy has been a KDE Board member and currently assists in many capacities involving graphical design.
Andy's work involves reviewing graphical changes to the system, providing improvements, maintaining visual conventions and developing new concepts for Plasma.
In his professional life, Andy is a Manager of User Testing for a large cloud services provider. Andy resides in the United States.
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