KDE is one of the most popular desktop interface on Linux platform, the new Plasma 5.0 upgrade brings the much-awaited fresh new look with a cleaner interface on top of a new graphics stack. The update provides users visually updated core desktop experience which is not only easier but also familiar to the user. Plasma 5.0 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The new Breeze artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Central work-flows have been streamlined, while well-known overarching interaction patterns are left intact. Plasma 5.0 improves support for high-DPI displays and ships a converged shell, able to switch between user experiences for different target devices. Changes under the hood include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5.

Theme Manager - a free utility for Windows 7 allows users to browse and install hundreds of unofficial themes from a single easy to use interface. Neatly divided into 15 different categories - TV Series, Landscape, Celebrities, Animals, Movies, 3D, Cars, Space, Motorcycle, Cartoons, Games, Anime, Computers, Sport, and Abstract users simply need to click on a theme's icon to instantly download and apply the theme.

Managing installed themes is also very simple, just switch to "Installed Themes" tab and you have all the options to manage already installed themes including uninstallation, New themes are automatically added to the catalog.

Leaked images of Microsoft Windows 8 displayed the new user image tile in system-tray area, another cosmetic change to the theming system "Aero Auto-Colorization" automatically changes the color of Aero elements based on the desktop wallpaper and launched application. Thanks to talented developers, users need not to wait for any leaked installer of Windows 8 to try these two new features as they have now ported both functionalities to Windows 7.

New leaks are keeping things abuzz on Windows 8 front, to get things going we have a brand new set of leaked Windows 8 screenshots showing fresh "Aero Lite" visual style (leaked images after the jump).

Since users are eager to tryout the future user-interface now, we have already seen conceptual themes and Windows 8 transformation pack for the upcoming OS, for the first time ever a visual style is now available for Windows 7 featuring the "Aero Lite" visual style with new metro user interface caption buttons, push buttons, taskbar, jump lists and many more tweaks taken from the leaked Windows 8 build.

We have very little information about the upcoming next-major OS release from Microsoft said to be called "Windows 8", however as seen earlier users are already interested in the next-gen user-interface and conceptual Windows 8 Transformation pack for Windows 7 and Windows 8 Themes are already started appearing.

Here is another such creation which is definitely going to provide a fresh look to your Windows 7 desktop for few days.

We had shared Windows 7 Theme and Windows 7 Transformation Pack for XP earlier on this blog, for achieving something similar on Windows Vista we now have Windows 7 Transformation Pack For Vista, the transformation pack includes Windows 7 Theme, Logon UI, Windows Media Player 12 for Vista, New Sound Schemes, Wallpaper and User Pictures.