
KDE 4.0 where to go
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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So I uploaded this only because I wanted to ask for your opinion.
It would be great to make a Poll out of that question.
How should KDE 4.0 look like? (from the view-point of style)
In Detail:
While KDE 3.4 and Windows XP are looking so to say 'childish', OS X and Longhorn look from the aesthetical view-point very 'stylish' and 'smooth'.
Now, they said there would be a lot of eye-candy in KDE 4.0 but how should it look like ?
Will there be a 'stylish' and 'cool' KDE 4.0 that looks just as good as OS X,
and which uses icons that are looking more aqua-like, or will there be a KDE 4.0 that uses icons such as Crystal or Nuvola and looks more 'colourful'?
In my opinion KDE 4.0 should be a Designer-Desktop Environtment.
Everything should look seamless, smooth, just like a Desktop Environment of the future would look like.
I would like to know your opinion so please post your opinion as a reply.
Maybe we should make a Poll here at kde-look.org and let the folks that develop kde know what the community expects from the aesthetical view point of KDE 4.0.
MMax
15 years ago
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=25328
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janet
15 years ago
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6thpink
15 years ago
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p0z3r
15 years ago
http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,48/expv,0/board,5.0
More developer type discussions are being done on a mailing list here:
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel
Post ideas, be creative, add to the discussions, mockups are great if you can make them. Be part of the future, and Plasma will be everything we want it to be!
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tomoe
15 years ago
But i agree that it'll be more successful if it's very smooth and futuristic ...
And it needs a windec that can be turned to auto-hide... ;-)
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athleston
15 years ago
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elektroschock
15 years ago
From my perspective a magohany style is needed. Not brushed metal but magohany wood.
Further I am convinced look of KDE is fine. Longhorn styles look great with the brushed mozilla style but is far from beeing stylish.
You cannot make a good-looking interface when you just copy.
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lane
15 years ago
If you have ideas, go to bugs.kde.org anf file a wish report.
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poisoned
15 years ago
I absolutely hate teletubby style interfaces, and the first time I saw someones XP desktop I actually found it so ugly I wanted to puke right away ...
On my laptop I couldn't work with some huge spacewasting style anyways, because I'm limited to 1024x768, which is an important argument for small styles.
IMHO KDE 4 should have a unique, slick look ...
One example of a perfect style I like like is enlightenments milk theme (http://enlightenment.org/Enlightenment/Screenshots/DR16_Screenshots_images/E_DR16-3.jpg): slick but beautiful. Another IMHO good example is the minimalistic reinhardt style for KDE ...
Also a small windeco would be nice ... (I currently use System++ because with the Web windeco you can't resize windows by dragging the lower corners, which is sad)
But the Plastik Style is very nice (not so the windeco), and as long as it doesn't get replaced with keramik as the default I wouldn't begin nagging anybody ;) =)
for the icons ... the most important thing to me is that they are uniqely identifiable at small sizes, which Crystal SVG is ... and it does look nice also at small sizes, which doesn't apply to too many icon themes ... so I would say stay with them ...
actually some icons shipped with the crystal svg version in kde 3.4 don't look crystal anymore (compare to the original crystal SVG 1.0 package) ... like the folder icons, the back&forward buttons and a few more .... I would replace them with the original again ... because they looked nicer ...
... I wouldn't care too much about the default look anyway ... you can configure it ^^ ... the only thing I would really care about was if too much performance would be sacrificed for eyecandy ...
sorry if this post doesn't make too much sense ... I'm really sick atm and can't really think clear ^^ maybe I should post again later ^^
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borisb
15 years ago
I dont want KDE to look like OS X or Win.
No, it SHOULD look UNIQUE.
What I meant is that at the moment KDE falls into the Win XP category, the 'Teletubby style' as you called it.
I wanted to know if people want KDE to look slicker than it it is at the moment not as childish as it is at the moment.
Reinhardt and Milk themes are indeed themes that look slick and fall into the 'slick'-category just as OS X.
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koral
15 years ago
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leinir
15 years ago
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borisb
15 years ago
I just looked at the artiists forum...
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