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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kde 3.1 -- make Keramik default?
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date:       2002-06-02 13:33:09
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On Sunday 02 June 2002 15:25, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Sunday 02 June 2002 13:01, Michael Brade wrote:
> > Woha! Although a bit too much light blue for me (reminds me so much of
> > WinXP...) it looks impressive. And looking at this screenie I definitely
> > can't understand people saying "the kmail icon lacks a clear border".
>
> Those people might not have XRender support. Crystal icons are really jaggy
> without it. Actually, if Crystal is to be made default (yes, please! ;-),

*sigh* I guess nobody reads my mails. Maybe I should rather start  to talk to 
/dev/nul these days - that would be much more effective ...

> on the setups without alpha blending I think it should *NOT* be default...

We won't ship two iconthemes with kdelibs. It's out of question in terms of 
size and efforts.

> Fixing Crystal for systems without alpha would likely not make Crystal more
> pretty for those who do have it, on the contrary rather.

I think it's possible to "fix" it as far as importance of these platforms 
goes. The number of computers which don't support alphablending is already 
quite low so these systems are neither that important nor are the owner of 
these platforms people to aestetics is too important (otherwise they would 
use something better).

Greetings,
Tackat

> Martijn

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Dipl.-Phys. Torsten Rahn 
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