I use this icon pack. A very good GTK/Qt/Kvantum/whatever is Simplewaita. It goes together well with the icon pack.

It’s nice and easy on the eyes. I conjecture that glossy and matte (as seen here) styles of skeuomorphism gave way to more abstract design since:

• Skeuomorphism is hard to get just right without being excessive and tacky
• Saturated, simple blocks of color pop out more, particularly on the increasingly prevalent mobile UI
• And thus also have better shelf appeal

If it were up to me, the red line would be when buttons and interactive elements are indistinguishable from text. The stock Android settings is probably among the worst offenders in this regard.

What I really miss is light mode that isn’t hated for blinding users and dark mode that doesn’t plunge the user into the void. Those “toolbars” look lovely, perfect for any lighting condition or time of day. I’ve yet to understand why, at present, designers insist on pure white everywhere when it comes to light mode. Maybe everyone is using the night light filter so it doesn’t matter? At least pure black dark mode makes sense for power efficiency on OLEDs.

Skeuomorphic, IMHO, is the best thing that happened to the world of software. I don’t ever understand why the whole industry shifted to the ugly flat shit design.

i don’t, not at all, but still think elementaryOS looks beautiful! Like holy hell, even on their websites they manage to make their design look good!

I fucking love skeuomorphism !

I tried to do a couple of icon sets that went with that trend for KDE. At one point I was involved with the KDE VDG and was about to set the style of the icons they’d use.

But apparently some suit told them they needed to go completely flat as they needed to plaster Firefox/distros/whatever logos on it, so everything needed to look consistent.

So in the end I got bored about it and stepped away. I’m trying to redo a new square-shaped-skeumorphed icon set but it’s so much work - like it’d need to be your daily job to pull it off.

However, if you take a look at it, it’s already in this one - some of them are just the base shape with some logo plastered on it (like the whatsapp one, or the one with the butterfly) and voilá, there’s your icon.

So icon sets are incredibly hard, and if you want a skeumorphism icon set its hard squared. That’s another of the reasons flat icons thrive today.

I don’t know if you’d call that skeuomorphism, and we have icons that are similar.

I’m not sure what you would call the opposite of ‘flat’ in terms of these designs, but I think that’s what you’re referring to.

I miss the KDE 3.x crystal theme

Colorful icons were amazing. That’s literally why the iMac sold so well. Colorful. Prove me wrong.

Kinda, yeah! These kinda remind me of some of the icon packs I used on my jailbroken iPod Touch!

My primary icon theme and widget style are 20+ years old and not flat in the least. You can still have that look and feel on a real computer if you want it (but you may have to compromise elsewhere or do some extra work). On phones, all bets are off.

Dunno what your issue with that icon pack is, but I’d bet there’s a good chance it can be solved with a few file renames or symlinks if you care enough to bother.

Hey, that’s the icon set I use in KDE! And yes i’d sell my kidneys to bring back skeumorphism and aero

Yeah, I don’t understand flatness either. Neither I understand the dark themes either. My eyes and brain simply can’t do the separation easily, I spend more time trying to process an image. Old style icons and UI colors are the best IMHO.

I do miss them. But I’m happy with my custom Suru++ Aspromauros icons too.

skeumorphism is fucking ugly and it’s the main thing that made me dislike the appearance of os x back in the day. it honestly blew my mind people found apple to be the vanguard of graphical design