Thoughts and Proposals on KDE and Plasma Desing and Much More
Ocean Icons in Penpot I began the process of moving icons from Figma to Penpot. The icons are locate in the Icons page inside Penpot. This page contains some placeholder icon components created by our contributors. This was done so that we could use generic icons for UI as we complete more parts of Ocean Continue reading Ocean Updates June 2026
Penpot WebGL and Bugfixes Figma Icon Flattening App Icons Progress Tokens and Plasma System Variables
Throughout this new process at KDE, I believe I have failed to clearly state what Ocean is and what it means for the future for Plasma user interface and experience. In this post, I will try to shed some light into this and hopefully it s easier for new people interested in this project. Why the Continue reading What Even is Ocean???
Fixing Color Visuals, Exporting and Importing We received multiple reports of problems when importing the Penpot library file. Users would see a Penpot instance crash upon loading our library. One of our contributors noticed that there was a problematic graphic in the library that, when removed, did not make the Penpot instance crash. I noticed Continue reading Ocean Design for Plasma May Updates
During FOSDEM this year, I met a group of very cool people that put together events about Open Source Design. They invited me to participate this year. The topic was similar to my talk during FOSDEM, but with a twist on the soft skills needed to complete the creation of a new design system for Continue reading FOSS BACKSTAGE DESIGN
This year was my first year attending FOSDEM. I was encouraged to submit a talk and it got accepted. My talk was on Design Systems applied to Open Source projects. In our case, I related the story and learnings from using a design system for the Plasma desktop. I outlined things that are pending or Continue reading FOSDEM 2026
We achieved significant milestones during 2025 on the Ocean design system for Plasma. Here is a video recap of all of the things that happened.
For the past few weeks, we have been working on a few areas around the design system for Plasma. Keep in mind that I am only speaking of the graphic side, not code. Work is ongoing with the Union engine and the team is focused on replicating our current Breeze style using Union. There have Continue reading Design System Progress November 2025
Meeting Link:https://meet.kde.org/playback/presentation/2.3/13c9edf5ab7dc3a850feebda14fe5ed07fbe3577-1762448228740 We got together with the PenPot team s leader, Pablo Ruiz, to discuss our updates and changes to migrate to PenPot from Figma. One are of focus for this discussion was in the sharing aspect of the libraries built in PenPot. We have use cases where developers and designers need to…
Video version: We re excited to share a major milestone in the development of the Ocean Design System for the Plasma Desktop! The project is moving away from Figma and fully migrating to the open-source platform Penpot. This shift was made possible by significant improvements in Penpot, which now supports critical features needed for a robust design system. The Continue reading Plasma Design…