felixernst added a comment.

  In D24223#675589 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223#675589>, @Boxie wrote:
  
  > As others have mentioned - Let's not mimic other desktop environments 
(there are plenty of dragons and devils hiding there).
  
  
  Are there really? If we really aren't confident enough in these new global 
themes I would consider adding "(experimental)" to their name. Even then I 
think that shipping any additional layouts by default will send the right 
message. I don't think it really matters if those additional layouts mimic 
other DEs/OSs or not but for simplicities sake and because in this case I see 
value in showing off I would encourage the current approach.
  
  Some more thoughts because I (perhaps baselessly) feel like progress on this 
feature was held back by doubts: If I came from another OS and saw the option 
to fundamentally change the layout with two clicks I wouldn't actually be 
expecting it to work. Now this is Plasma and we want our most powerful features 
to work flawlessly as well but let's keep in mind that even a buggy attempt is 
more than others have attempted.
  I also wouldn't worry too much about the theme not resembling an existing 
DE/OS close enough. I don't think users actually expect that unless we market 
it as such. On the contrary marketing has told users that iPhones from Androids 
from Windows from Macs are fundamentally different. So yea, picture me cheering 
"LGTM" from the audience.

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