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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: High performance liquid screenshots
From:       mosfet <mosfet () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-09 2:00:43
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The blue color is configurable with my style and this is a widget style 
engine, not a pixmap theme engine, so the basicstyle.la question isn't 
applicable.

On Friday 08 June 2001 11:09 pm, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2001 22:22, mosfet wrote:
> |   A) It's already unique enough, nothing looks like it does in MacOSX
> | except the Window manager decorations (which isn't part of the style,
> | that's an icewm theme). Am I not supposed to do anything that looks like
> | liquid widgets? Bull. I *already* made things look different.
>
> Hi Mosfet!
> I think you should jsut post couple of screenshots *without* IceWm window
> decorations.
> It will fix misunderstanding here.
>
> |   B) There are plenty Aqua based themes out there that are not sued
> | because they neither ripoff Apple's graphics or trademarks. If you look
> | at all the themes that got Apple's ire, they either used the terms
> | "Apple" or "MacOS", or had Apple's icons all over them. There is nothing
> | wrong with this style.
>
> As about Aqua theme - I personally don't like it.
> Idea of using Blue color with gradient combinations is nice (ocean is blue,
> heavens are blue - it's very natural color for human'r eye)
> But Apple's implementation sucks IMHO.
> it is too *coarse*
> I am going to make own variant of Aqua, and I guess it will be ready in
> week or maximum two.
> I found it's rather difficult to make variant of decorations Apple have
> choosen, looking good.
> But I guess I can overcome it. Not with gradients - with *handwork* only.
>
> BTW: in Russia name "Aqua" is patented by Coca-Cola. They have nice
> sparkling miniral water, "Aqua Minirale". Label is, of course, in bright
> blue.  So, there are no Apples here. He-he!..
>
> |   On Friday 08 June 2001 04:47 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> |   > Yea it's frustrating, but Apple has been *very* aggressive in this
> |   > regard and who is going to pay the legal bills if it comes to that? 
> |   > I think if it had been a truly original piece of work (which I would
> |   > have liked to have seen) there would have been no discussion about it
> |   > at all.  While the work is totally original, there are some glaring
> |   > pieces that are taken from the Aqua theme.  Why not go through and
> |   > modify some of the more obvious bits into something unique?  It seems
> |   > everyone likes the style, they are just worried about Apple.  No
> |   > sense in wasting the work, just tweak it up a bit.
> |   >
> |   > shawn
>
> P.S. Let me vote here for including Mosfet's Liquid theme into KDE-base
> (libs?)
> The only thing I want to clarify - is it script-compatible with
> basicplugin.la (I mean is it possible to use existing .themerc files with
> it)?
 
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