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Some progress on Oxygens icons and more…

Planet KDE [Unofficial] May 30, 2026
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So... progress continues on Oxygen Over the last few weeks me and Pravin Kumar have been filling in some of the gaps in the icon set. There are still quite a few missing icons around the place, but slowly Oxygen is becoming a bit more complete again. Its fun revisiting this old project after all these years. Sometimes I find myself looking at old icons wondering what younger me was thinking. Sometimes the answer is "not much"or, the answer is "way too much".. Either way, Oxygen continues to grow. Talking about fun... I've also been spending some time investigating QML styling and themeing. And in this case not because i have immediate plans do this, but mostly because i am curious about what is possible and where the limitations actually are. One thing I learned over the years is that there is often a large gap between what a toolkit "officially" allows and what a sufficiently stubborn designer can get away with Some of the ideas are probably completely unreasonable. Some not so much Which usually means they are worth exploring. I've been experimenting with possible directions for O² and thinking about how a future visual language could work. And this that im doing now is more of an exploration on the range rgther than what it actualy look slike Nothing concrete yet. Mostly experiments. Questions. Terrible ideas. Possibly a few good ones hidden among them. If things continue to move forward we (via KDAB) probably make a video showing some of these investigations, experiments and concepts. Sometimes its easier to explain visual ideas by showing them instead of writing walls of text about them. So stay tuned And as always... if you are using Oxygen, thank you. Its nice seeing that this old project still has a few new stories to tell.

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