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Plasma 5 stripped away all the visual goodness and many widgets like Lancelot launcher making KDE look and feel more like LXDE. It would be really nice to have a KDE 4 style theme that gave us back the color and depth and goodness that made KDE the king of desktops. Sure there were optimizations and upgrades to core pieces of the desktop that could have been implemented in KDE 4 but taking the Cadillac of Linux Desktops and stripping everything off to make it a bland featureless "lite" desktop was hardly improving it or making it better. KDE fixed something that wasn't broken! Some of us like depth and color. Some of us like the usability and customizability of KDE which is what drew us to KDE in the first place. If all that is gone, we might as well use another desktop. If KDE looks and feels like a washed out version of LXDE we might as well take advantage of the performance gain of the lighter desktop. Can we have some color and depth back?

what exactly are you looking for? The Oxygen theme is available as are others and you have options to change your colors.

Is there a specific theme you're missing? A specific color scheme?

have you looked at what was available in "Get New Themes"?

The color and individual separated icons in the task bar. This new monochrome theme I find a lot harder to use. When the task bar is grey, the text or image on the indistinguishable icons is light grey or black it all becomes incoherent. A "flat" icon theme was created for KDE 4 and distros that used it by default I immediately switched it back to traditional KDE themes and individual icons. I'm left struggling trying to return color and ease of visual use to Plasma 5. I shouldn't have to lean forward and squint to identify the icons. I'm using an Asus 23.5: IPS monitor for graphics work at 1920 x 1080. This dull depressing featureless theme is to me the antithesis of modern. When people start selling off their 60" plasma HDTVs to buy 14" black and white TVs I will concede your point! Going from vibrant HD color to 1960s black and white hardly seems like progress to me! It was the overall look and feel of KDE that won me and I suspect many others over to KDE and now the Plasma 5 overall look and feel is the most anemic of any Linux desktop. It was the fact that it was NOT flat and lifeless that appealed to me and suspect many others. I'd like to see the option to have the bright perhaps bold visual appeal of KDE 4 restored for those of us who prefer that. What happened to Ubuntu when they tried to shove Unity down their users throats? What happened to a lot of Gnome users when Gnome moved to Gnome 3? Now Mate, based on Gnome 2, is making great gains! You make KDE into something that people don't want or like to suit yourselves rather than your users and the same thing could happen to KDE. LXQT is looking nice and some KDE programs run well on it already! Give people the option of using the new flat system you seem to feel is better but don't take away all other options! There is more to this than speed! If speed was our main concern we would never have adopted KDE in the first place! We liked the way it looked and worked. I don't believe that going from what KDE 4 looked like to the new flat look has anything to do with the going to QT5 or any other core improvements. Look at the new i-phone or Android phones. They are all bright colored easy to see icons! They are NOT "flat" and obscure, un-delineated! In light of what is happening everywhere else, I think you are barking up the wrong tree with this colorless flat theme! Some of the advanced clock setting are back but still no option for setting up the format for the date. (short day, short month)

Is the exclusive, no options, new flat monochrome look something that the majority of KDE users asked for or something that KDE has arbitrarily decided? Why would KDE make such a radical theme change without leaving the door open to use the color themes that attracted users to KDE? I don't ever recall seeing screen shots of KDE 4 with a flat colorless theme! It would seem to me that even if it was available no one wanted that!