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My suggestion is to develop an intuitive, easy to use, kde theme editor. Where novice to advance users can create their own KDE look. It should target Windows, Panels, Widgets etc... the entire look and feel. That means scroll bars too.




Thank you for reading,

I think this possible by using Qt quick.

@ciloman

Draw some mockups. They only have to be sketches and a description of what you can change where. You'll get more involvement if you clearly put in some effort up front.

@zayed
I don't think QtQuick is particularly relevant from my understanding of the request - that's more about designing whole interfaces, not for theming existing ones.

@david_edmundson
right now the kstyle like oxygen is written by C++ which is a blocker for designer. My thinking is moving from ksytel to QtQuick which use QML. Anyway, there is a presentation in coming Akademy about QtQuick and KDE.
http://akademy.kde.org/node/337

I believe for widgets there is a program called Plasmate that is aiming to make plasmoids easily.

For windows, try using the Aurorae engine and designer. Everything is just modifying an SVG file, you can't get much easier. Plasma themes are just as easy to make, only there's more files.

The only thing I might suggest for theming is a program that acts like Firefox Personas, possibly, but that would just be a skin for windows I suppose.

as envalin said: for window-decos there is aurorae-designer, for Plasma-themes (panels and, as far as you mean the ones on the desktop, widgets) there is Plasmate.

Themes, for widgets(buttons,etc.) in Applications aren't as easy to make, because you need to code them in text(c++), not in svg-images like the others.

Of course there is a framework for providing a svg-theme-based GUI for applications, it's called Plasma and is used for example at the desktop , but it has a big disadvantage: performance. Every svg-image has to be interpreted before it can be shown (because strictly it is also just text) not like c++-based themes, which are compiled before.
Nevertheless performance has been improved a lot since 4.0 and it will be improved a lot in future. So there sure will be applications that use plasma for UI in future and maybe some time hole KDE... *dream*

Plasmate?