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The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival
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About the same time.
To be fair I'm not too fond of extremely colorful icons. They do have their place, but in most interfaces I do prefer flat or slightly shadowed icons.
I value more the UX of the interface than the design of the icons, tough the icons are indeed important. Painting icons over KDE does not really change how you interact with KDE.
I don't particularly like KDE, but have not found a better DE anyway.