Talking about Kubuntu, Arch Linux, OpenSuse, …. Questions where I can find the Plasma Widgets, UI Session about Kmail, Plasma, Kdenlive … . Where Plasma Mobile should go, how the user should navigate through Plasma and the phone applications. Starting improvements for plasma. Talking how the VDG can improve the workflow between designers and development. Writing bug reports, fixing bugs. Make code changes, discuss it on reviewboard. Talk to the devs to fix some UI stuff. Go hiking and don’t stop talking about Plasma and KDE. That was Randa for me. It was amazing.

The VDG was represent by Jens, Heiko, Uri and me. I met Uri the first time since I start making Breeze icons. That was so cool that we work together to finalize Breeze. And we made it happen. All Oxygen icons from the oxygen repository are now available in Breeze. Therefore we made during the sprint 1.600 new icons. So we have now 4.780 Breeze icons. Uri and I work since spring 2014 on the Breeze icons and we made 55 % of the missing icons in one week. It was impressing what you can do with KDE sprints. Hope we can do a design sprint in 2016.

In the diagram you see we now support 24px GTK icons, add the missing devices icons, look that the KDE applications get Breeze icons and updated our actions icons for 16px and 22px size. Now we support not only the Oxygen icons we also include the Krusader, Amarok and Digikam icons. We have now 1034 action icons.

As QT5 will ship the icons first from the system setting icon set, Digikam 5.0 (still in Beta) switch between Breeze, Breeze Dark and Oxygen within one click on the look and feel package. In KDE4 applications you have to rename the folder in /usr/share/kde4/apps/xxx/icons/ (kubuntu) and you get the Breeze icons for Digikam and Amarok (at your own risk). Our changes are in the Plasma/5.4 brunch so the user will get our Randa stuff asap.

For the Plasma 5.5 Release we will go to the KDE Applications and add the last missing icons. In addition we will remove wrong used icons cause we send fixes to the applications or make Bug Reports that the Applications should use the right icons.

As I wrote in the first paragraph we do a lot of User Interface stuff together with the developers (Heiko made a blog post about some stuff) We show how the VDG work and let the developers know that we would like to work with them together. Not only by make the first design draft. We are excited where our journey will go.

I now work since 10 months for KDE in my spare time and I enjoy it very much. I’m quite happy that there is the VDG cause it is much easier to start the KDE journey within a small group. If you like to go with us, go to the forum and make your first comment. The VDG is not an elite group where you have to study design, … If you like to focus on usability and visual stuff, … Welcome