The theme in question is below here.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Slickness+Black?content=73210

I'd like to get one that is similarly shiny/dark that works inside of KDE. I'm definitely thinking of changing over to KDE since XFCE is still on it's plan of uber-simplicity, gnome 3 is ugly and slow, and thus kde is the best bet. Icons should work the same across gtk/kde, and so should x11 mouse themes right? If not then I'll have to find a way to either 'port' them over or replace them.

Icons should be mostly sharable, yes. X11 Mouse themes are definitely sharable.

For the colour theme, have you tried the options such as Obsidian Coast in System Settings > Application Appearance > Colours?

I've not yet even gotten KDE yet. I'm waiting till the last moment possible to finally abandon gnome2. Once I see a security update for GNOME, then that's when I'll officially make the switch.

133794m3r wrote:Once I see a security update for GNOME, then that's when I'll officially make the switch.

I spend a fair amount of my time in the world of computer and information security, so this statement caught my attention. Out of pure curiosity, would you mind explaining what you mean a bit more?

My guess is that 133794m3r is saying, in a roundabout way, that he'll switch over to KDE once Gnome 2 stops seeing feature addition and non-security bug-fix releases.

steveriley wrote:

133794m3r wrote:Once I see a security update for GNOME, then that's when I'll officially make the switch.

I spend a fair amount of my time in the world of computer and information security, so this statement caught my attention. Out of pure curiosity, would you mind explaining what you mean a bit more?

What I'm saying is, the moment I see a security update for GNOME as in one that is fixing a security flaw that is discovered/made known inside of the GNOME stack, then I'll make the switch to KDE. The reason for this is very simple. I'm going to use GNOME until I'm forced to switch, since GNOME2 is officially EOL, I'm going to stick with it until I see security updates. Since I do _not_ want to avoid security updates. When they force GNOME3 upon me then I'll jump.

it's tha simple, I don't care about new features, I don't give a **** about teh new UI in GNOME or any other random ****. I want a DE that's consistent, everything works the same, and for it to be stable. That's what I want. GNOME team has shown that they're all asshats just like Mozilla, and thus I'm leaving GNOME to likely KDE once GNOME has a security vunerability made public that afflicts GNOME2. For firefox I'm trying to hold on hoping that something somewhere allows for the same level of customization as I've gotten in firefox and once that is seen then I'll leave it by the wayside. Their new UI mockups are god awful and when they come down the line, I'm leaving instead of having to use that steaming pile of ****.

pxc wrote:My guess is that 133794m3r is saying, in a roundabout way, that he'll switch over to KDE once Gnome 2 stops seeing feature addition and non-security bug-fix releases.

GNOME2 is EOL, there are _no_ updates coming from them anymore at all. This means no features, no bug fixes, nothing. As I said, I'm going to make the switch, once a security bug is present inside of GNOME2 since that is when I switch. I'll stick with it until I'm vunerable.

133794m3r wrote:

pxc wrote:My guess is that 133794m3r is saying, in a roundabout way, that he'll switch over to KDE once Gnome 2 stops seeing feature addition and non-security bug-fix releases.

GNOME2 is EOL, there are _no_ updates coming from them anymore at all. This means no features, no bug fixes, nothing. As I said, I'm going to make the switch, once a security bug is present inside of GNOME2 since that is when I switch. I'll stick with it until I'm vunerable.

What vulnerabilities that will be found in Gnome2 are already present, they just haven't been discovered. In other words you are as vulnerable now as at any point in the future. You are also free to continue using Gnome2 forever if you want (chances are very few if any people out there are going to write malware that affects some hole in some piece of an out-of-date desktop).

Some other notes: your linux distribution isn't going to send Gnome3 out as a "Security update". They might send it out as a Feature update, they might include it as a separately-installable option so you could install it side-by-side, or they will only provide it for newer releases of the distribution, but if you are on a particular release that has Gnome2, only applying the updates that are sent out for that release then you won't find yourself "suddenly" running Gnome3 (the only exception I can think of would be rolling-release distributions like PClinuxOS and Arch - but at least you would see that the update removes Gnome2 and installs Gnome3).

Of course, we here in KDE-land welcome welcome all new-comers, whether they come from Windows, Mac, Gnome, XFCE, etc.

As for an answer for a similar dark theme, first of all, you can set the widget theme (systemsettings -> Application Appearance -> Style) to GTK+ Style and it should use the same theme as you have set up in Gnome2. Second, you can try looking for similar-looking themes. In KDE themes are generally split into three parts: the color scheme, the widget style, and the window decoration (window titlebar+borders+buttons). For widget style I would recommend QtCurve; the style engine is very flexible and there are a large number of sub-styles available on kde-look.org. I could even put one together to match (as close as I can) if you can't find a similar-enough style. For the color scheme, Obsidian Coast is a pretty nice dark scheme and you can also use the Get New Schemes button in the Colors settings to look for color schemes online.