The old among us might remember KDE4 and something one could call the “Pink Phase”, when people explored how “interesting” they could make their digital workplace by applying certain colors and themes… don’t most of us sometimes need a fluffy and color-intensive world to escape to… if only to learn to value reality again, when things get too fluffy 🙂

The most outstanding work useful for that had been done once by Florian Schepper who created the Plasma theme “Fluffy Bunny”, which won hearts over on first sight. Sadly though the theme bundle got lost, was recovered, only to then by the times getting lost again from the stores. Time to repeat that, at least the recovering 🙂

And so last week the internet and local backups had been scanned to restore the theme again, to quick first success:

Well, besides the regression Plasma5 has over the old Plasma 😉 With only thin & non-tiled border themes trendy and used the last years, sadly current Plasma has some issues, also does it assume that borders of panels are rectangular when creating the default BlurBehind mask. Some first patches (1, 2, 3) are already under review.

Get the initial restored version from your Plasma desktop via System settings/Workspace Theme/Plasma Theme/Get new Plasma Themes…/Search “Fluffy Bunny” or via the Web interface from store.kde.org and enjoy a bit of fluffy Plasma 😉

Next up: restoring the “Plasma Bunny” theme from the once drafted “Fluffy” linux distribution… less flurry, but more pink!

Update: First version of new named “Unicorn” is now up in the store for your entertainment.