KDE4 - Ubuntu Ambiance by half-left

This is a plasma theme designed to look like the Ubuntu Ambiance theme.

Instructions:

Extract the theme to ~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme/

Select the theme in System Settings>Workspace Appearance>Desktop Theme>Theme

If the theme doesn't show right for some reason, delete the cache file ~/.kde/cache (machinename)/ubuntu-ambiance.kcache

KDE4 Ambiance Suite [link]

twitch-620 Featured By Owner Oct 9, 2014 Hobbyist General Artist

Wallpaper?

aislanmaia Featured By Owner Sep 1, 2013

Theme qtcurve don't work in KDE 4.11

thefish728 Featured By Owner May 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Love your work!!!

half-left Featured By Owner May 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks!

erkasoft Featured By Owner Feb 18, 2013

Kubuntu should use this

ShadowMaker-241 Featured By Owner Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

I can't find ~/.kde to begin with...

half-left Featured By Owner Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

~/ refers to your home directory and . files are hidden, so to get to it in the address bar /home/myusername/.kde or show hidden files in the file manager.

ShadowMaker-241 Featured By Owner Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

Ah okay.

IvancitoTk Featured By Owner Jan 17, 2013

It's very nice. I love it..

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 17, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks.

beta992 Featured By Owner Jan 14, 2013

Looks very nice.

Switching to KDE was a good decision.

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 14, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Yeah indeed, thanks.

valmar73 Featured By Owner Jan 9, 2013

Great!!!

PS: Can I ask you which icon theme are you using? And are you using a particular color scheme?

Thank you for providing us with this great theme

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 9, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks. Icon theme is the default Ubuntu one which works in KDE4. There is no colour scheme, just the plasma theme.

valmar73 Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2013

Thank you. No, I did not mean a color scheme for the plasma theme. I was actually asking if, on your computer, with this theme you use the default blue oxygen style or a specific ubuntu-like color scheme (or maybe a different style altogether, like qt)

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

I'm just using the default Oxygen theme at the moment.

valmar73 Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2013

Can I ask you another question, please.How hardcoded are the colours. I will try to explain myself. I would like to use this theme but with a different "color scheme" from ubuntu (i.e. blue tinted as opposed to orange-tinted). I know plasma themes are svg and have a "color file" where dolors are defined. Would it be enough to change it there (and maybe in other svg files) or is it hardcoded in some image-like files?

I hope the question is clear....

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

You can make a theme where the colours of the plasma theme change with the colour scheme but it has limitations, and the plasma theme needs an object name in the theme to tell it to change colours.

The main hardcoding of colours comes in the form of not being able to change colours per widget, like text colour, so design is limited to that in a way.

valmar73 Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2013

Thanks. My question, however, was specifically related to this theme: with this theme, if I substitute in all svg files the code for orange color with the code for blue color, will it be enough to make a blue-based theme or will there be still sume bitmap in orange that I need to change?

Sorry for not being clear. Thank you for taking time to answer me

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

The colour for this theme is set in the SVG as drawn in the svgz files, so what colours you see in there is what you get.

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phantommenace2020 Featured By Owner Jan 9, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

nice

giancarlo64 Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Beautiful!

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks.

giancarlo64 Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

You are welcome!

miksedk Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow, looks very nice, can't wait to try it out, just need a fresh KDE install

jakin0605 Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Very nice, I for one like the ubuntu colours, on my KDE.

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks.

ShippD Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013

coooooool love it

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Glad you do.

ShippD Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013

SuprVillain Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

So, Pro's and Con's here.
Pro: Ubuntu (Unity) lovers will love this theme, no doubt.
Con: KDE4 lovers... not so much. no "glass" effects.

Having said that, wow, good job. Not a Unity lover here, but I see the potential in this.

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks.

Scayris Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 General Artist

Well damn, you're actually gonna make me like KDE

Great job!

half-left Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

haha thanks.

llewton Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013

KDE in 4.10 seems to be moving toward flatter widgets with smaller borders and this seems to be in that spirit. certainly looks very nice. as somebody who pretty much only likes ubuntu colors out of the entire distro XD i look forward to trying this.

neil78b Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

_{Ubuntu has the worst default colors I have ever seen, those orange, purple and brownish colors are just plain hideous. Nothing against your work because you are doing a great job, awesome actually. Ubuntu colors, not so.}

Jakeukalane Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

i don't like kde for all of that grey. This theme shows that you can have un-grey KDE. For me this image shows that I can try KDE in the future.

neil78b Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

_{Not seeing the point here, you could always change the colors to your liking. The default grey colors and light colors are chosen simply because the human eyes see text better against it.}