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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST: Fwd: Artwork : KDM User Pictures
From:       Kenneth Wimer <wimer () suse ! de>
Date:       2004-11-04 12:35:09
Message-ID: 20041104123509.GB14647 () suse ! de
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* Kenneth Wimer <wimer@suse.de> [Nov 04. 2004 13:21]:
> * Frans Englich <frans.englich@telia.com> [Nov 04. 2004 12:16]:
> > On Thursday 04 November 2004 10:50, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > > * Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org> [Nov 01. 2004 07:56]:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:30:30AM +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > > > > Several of this pics in this package seem to fit well.
> > > >
> > > > which ones in particular?
> > > >
> > > > > I suggest that we pick a few pics from this (with the authors help, of
> > > > > course) and add a few of them to KDM.
> > > >
> > > > i object.
> > > > i've put a link to them on the (not yet very well known) kdm home page
> > > > and maybe the separate user manager could use some of them (it already
> > > > includes quite some pics), but i don't think this is something for kdm
> > > > itself. it's only missing a crystal root icon ... ;)
> > >
> > > Sorry for the confusion, I was inteding to put them in kdepasswd, not
> > > KDM itself.
> > 
> > When I rewrote kdeutils/kdepasswd/kcm and put it in kdebase, I reduced the 
> > amount some. I'm all for changes, but I don't know on what criteria to select 
> > images -- should the images simply be pretty, or should they represent 
> > identities? This is a usability issue.
> 
> It seems to me that we  do not want anything which represent identies
> because such visual metaphors might cause problems in different
> cultures. I think that we basically need a few high quality fun things
> like the other operating systems.
> 

In addition to the couple of pics that are in KDM itself (user and
root). These icons are usability issues. I redrew the user icon a long
time ago but I still am having a creative block on the root icon.

Perhaps someone has an idea for a "root user" icon design? You'd make
Ossi really happy :-)

Bye,
Kenneth

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