Oh no! Not at all. My apologies.
It is just not everybody seems aware of the fact that regaining control requires taking responsibility for that control and many still want others to do things for them. That is not how having control works.
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So, again, not annoyed, but let me point out firstly that input based on taste is useless. Nate said as much above. You cannot reason out taste because it is inherently subjective. It all boils down to âI like it better⌠Because I do.â
Secondly, much more useful than feedback is feedback with the solution under its arms, hence the call to get involved. If you have a criticism, you are much more likely to have your criticism heeded if you supply the means to solve the perceived problem. This is just common sense when dealing with unpaid volunteers.
This is a win-win way of approaching things: you get to be heard, KDE gains a new contributor. Without the solution, the relationship user â community is unbalanced.
But that applies basically to everything UI/design related? 
And to quote me:
Besides, if I were that much off with my comment would there be an ongoing effort to⌠well⌠change it?
And older post ( https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/breeze-icons-update/):
Another criticism of our current icons we would like to address is how thin they feel in high-DPI screens. To address this, we have been making our lines 2px (for the most part) where it makes sense.
Given this is an update, and who knows how long it will take for another time when an update is done, I also feel itâs necessary to update many of the shapes we have. We are using rounding for making shapes a little more approachable. Some icons have been transformed inspired by the original files. For other files, I usually check on other icon providers to see how different or similar we are to most icons today. That way, if there is a need for more editing, we can land on something recognizable.
Again, as someone working on FOSS project myself you are kinda preaching to the choir.
Iâm not a designer or âartsyâ person. I expressed the issue as best as I could (âmake them softerâ) and offered a comparison with something that IMHO looks somewhat âbetterâ).
At any rate, EOT from my side. Iâm glad that KDE is developing at an amazing speed and that I learned about design effort thanks to @ngraham links - I spend a fair bit of time digging into that space about which I wasnât at all awareâŚ
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When the new icon set is expected to land? The video is 6 month oldâŚ
There is a new blog post " Design System December Updates" ( https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/design-system-december-updates/ ) with publication date of 12/08/2024 and video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0YEpDcoEHc
(copy paste as I canât include linksâŚ)
Wow what a brilliant widget!
Right? Luis has some great addons for KDE: luisbocanegra (Luis Bocanegra) ¡ GitHub
Whatever yâall decide to do with Breeze, please, keep Oxygen around.
Iâll point out that looking for new icon themes (or really anything at KDE Look/KDE Store/Pling) is far from the best experience.
Clicking the âGet Newâ button in the Icons section of the settings application shows 17 (if counted them correctly) most downloaded icon themes, but even these few some have broken (squeezed) thumbnails. Hell, the first one, Papirus, does.
However, the web interface is even worse. The user experience which it provides is just terrible. Iâve mentioned it when the whole global theme accident happened recently.
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Everything is looking great. Ive tested some of it on KDE OS. Keep up the great work.
I did have one question an will move it to a separate issue if needed.
Iâm on nix os with kde 6 an have a arch setup with 6 as well i have never been able to get this to work (updating themes/icons) is there a pkg or dependency i need to make it work? Do I have to install the theme or icon pack via discover? it would make updating theme stuff so much more simple.
Youâre absolutely right. Once usability and accessibility considerations are out of the way, what is left is a matter of taste.
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I donât know now NixOS packages stuff, but perhaps youâre missing a package that provides Discoverâs KNewStuff backend?
Great work, is there any chance recent files gets fixed? Recent files not working - #12 by johnandmegh
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Most of the time, I rely on keyboard shortcuts than point-and-click but itâs also nice to have a bit of bling.
It isnât fixed to the same color. It changes color like Christmas lights.
I think itâs also strange that the widgets have rounded borders but the windows of programs like dolphin or any other, doesnât have rounded borders, makes it look inconsistent