ASCII

ASCII Original

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

Description:

Retro ASCII look for Plasma.

This theme was born as a joke at the Plasma developers meeting called Tokamak 4 held in Nuremberg.

After I posted the news on my blog, a lot of people expressed the desire to have it.

*Further development*
If you are interested in contributing to this theme and want to make it use all the fancy new Plasma 5 features, the sources are at git@git.kde.org:scratch/ivan/plasma-theme-ascii

For more info on 'outsourcing', see http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2010/11/14/ascii-plasma-theme-and-others/

Last changelog:

Plasma 5 support 1 year ago

Thanks to Friedrich Kossebau, updated for Plasma 5

snowhog
10 years ago

I can imagine your schedule dictates priorities other than this Theme, but it would be really nice if you could find enough time to finish it.

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ivancukic
10 years ago

Yes, I'm bad... I will, the question I don't know the answer to is 'when'.

Probably after KDE SC 4.5 is released - there is much work to be done development-wise, I rarely get any free-time for artwork.

Cheerio

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snowhog
10 years ago

Thank you for the reply. I'll look forward to seeing this Theme finished 'one day' then. :)

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bashboxx58
10 years ago

The way I imagine this is that a bunch of Plasma developers got together in Nuremburg, of all places, had too much to drink at night, and woke up with the sickening realization that they had designed something clean, simple, unpretentious, and easy to read.

Well, whatever it takes. I've been praying for something like this! The analog clock is pretty ugly, so I use the elegance clock, but other than that I don't have to tweak anything. Everything looks good, but more important, everything is visible at all times. I can let the wallpaper run on a slide show, and nothing is going to come up at any time that will make a part of my display unreadable.

I'd love to see this available in a wide variety of bold colors. Dark green comes to mind, maybe a dark red.

Can't tell you how much this helps me resolve my epic ambivalence to KDE4. My biggest problem is that I can't stop compulsively tweaking the desktop because the more complex a theme is, the harder it is to make it look good. Here's a theme that I can just forget about. Thank you! Thank you!

For god's sake, don't be afraid to think INSIDE the box from time to time!

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ivancukic
10 years ago

Heh, well, believe it or not, the idea came to me in the morning, so we hadn't anything to drink before that.

I /was/ in a state of bliss at the time since I found one of my favourite candies - turkish baklava, but nothing more than that :)

As for the colour themes, maybe later when I find the time.

And, as for the clock, yes, it is ugly, but I can't think of a pretty clock that will be ascii-like.

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icwiener
10 years ago

Hi,

is the icon missing that is supposed to be shows when systray icons are hidden?

Regards

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snowhog
10 years ago

This is actually a very nice theme. I hope you finish it.

It's clean and crisp. Has a very nice 'eye feel' to it.

Another fine product from the man who brought us Lancelot.

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