Moving KDE's styling into the future

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Last year during Akademy I gave a talk called Union: The Future of Styling in KDE?!. In this talk I presented a problem: We currently have four ways of styling our applications. Not only that, but some of these approaches are quite hard to work with, especially for designers who lack programming skills. This all leads to it being incredibly hard to make changes to our application styling currently, which is not only a problem for something like the Plasma Next Initiative, but even smaller changes take a lot of effort.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2025-02/moving-kdes-styling-future
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The images aren’t being rendered.

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Open the link to have them.

They don’t get through on planet.kde.org either.

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Interesting… and complicated, it must take a lot of work to design (pun unintended) this stuff, not to mention implementing it…

Hopefully easier maintenance of styles will also result in fixing my beloved Oxygen.

They seem to work properly now.

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@Drogoslaw, not for me, still. Do they still, for you? Would be weird if they work for you, but not @meven and I.

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Yes.

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@Drogoslaw, do know whether you by any chance have an IPv6 connection? I don’t, and if the CDN isn’t serving IPv4 addresses, perhaps that’s it. If you don’t either, I’ll stop pestering you and file this formally somewhere when I have the chance. Thanks.

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I don’t, I have IPv4.

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