The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to

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. It consists of a set of

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, a

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for

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themes for

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and Qt, two themes for Plasma Workspaces, and a

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family. The Oxygen theme set is used by default for Plasma Workspaces in most Linux distributions, like Fedora, Kubuntu, and

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History

The original purpose was to create a new set of icons but expanded to include a new theme, which included a new cursor, widget and window theme, and sounds. It represents a break with the cartoonish look of previous

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graphics and iconsets, adopting a more

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style. One of the overall goals of Oxygen was to provide a nice looking desktop that did not distract the user, so the icons and themes use a desaturated color palette. The name Oxygen came from a joke between the developers that they wanted to ”bring a breath of fresh air to the desktop”.

Oxygen Fonts

On the Oxygen Font sub-project was announced. The first release – version 0.1 – was done a month later. The 0.2 release from included refinements and added a

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Standardization

The Oxygen Project aims to offer standard icons, guidelines and a style guide. It builds on the

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Standard Icon Naming Specification and Standard Icon Theme, allowing consistency across applications. There is an ongoing effort for supporting these specifications in different desktops, and by different icon sets and themes, such as the

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People

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(''current coordinator'') * David Vignoni (''founder'') * Kenneth Wimer (''founder'')

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History

Oxygen Fonts

Standardization

People

See also

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