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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: What KDE needs at this point...
From:       Steve Hunt <theshunt () crosswinds ! net>
Date:       2001-05-31 10:33:49
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Personally, I think that GNOME running Nautlilus has the nicest looking 
fonts.  KDE 1 also had nice looking fonts.  They weren't fancy, but they all 
were clean, simple, and consistant.

On Thursday 31 May 2001 07:53 am, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2001 04:44, Jim Doen wrote:
> > Fonts, Color-Schemes, Icons, Backgrounds
> > ========================================
> >
> > After installing the latest KDE tonight, I say that KDE needs an
> > incredible graphics artist(s) to develop icons and backgrounds for its
> > default look.
>
> We are always happy to receive your artwork or an additional graphics
> artist  payed / provided by you :-)
>
> > The lastest KDE is great -- however, it needs be more polished and
> > professional-looking-- with better icons, fonts, backgrounds, and
> > color-schemes.
>
> We are perfectionists so we agree on that statement. The kde-artist-team
> is always trying to improve the look of KDE.
>
> > As much as I don't care for Macs, they are probably the best when it
> > comes to color-selection, fonts, icons, and a overall professional
> > look....
> >
> > http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/finder.html
>
> Well, using MacOS X you can assume a lot of things you don't
> have necessarily available on Linux, like alphablending, antialiasing,
> good fonts and a lot of other stuff.
> Therefore KDE comes preconfigured with a default look that matches
> close to the lowest denominator which means: no alphablending,
> no antialiasing and 32x32-icons.
> MacOS X for example uses larger icons with alphablending.
> You can do this in KDE as well and you'll get better results:
>
> http://master.kde.org/~tackat/default32.png
> http://master.kde.org/~tackat/default48.png
>
> With even bigger icons it looks even more fancy ;)
>
> http://master.kde.org/~tackat/groesser.png
> http://master.kde.org/~tackat/greatkonq.png
> http://master.kde.org/~tackat/greatkonq2.png
>
> Creating good fonts is a matter of spending a really huge amount of money
> because noone will create a set of fonts for you of the quality of the
> MS-Webfonts for free (not to mention that they have become a quasi-standard
> and that one would have to create something very similar ...)
>
> Of course MacOS X-icons still might look a bit more professional to you
> because they look photorealistic. KDE-icons on the other hand tend to look
> more 2D-shaped which we consider to be better in terms of usability.
> Also there are other issues which make using photorealistic icons
> something we don't really want.
>
> > At any rate, KDE needs cleaner/nicer icons, fonts, backgrounds, and
> > colors-schemes for its default look (since more users leave everything
> > set to default).
>
> We'll probably have multiple "default-looks" for KDE 2.2.
> And the user will very easily be able to adjust the amount of eyecandy
> according to his needs / hardware. We are working on the issues you have
> mentioned and I guess you will be much more pleased with the results in KDE
> 2.2.
>
> > KDE update component
> > ====================
> >
> > Make it easy to update to the latest and greatest KDE.
>
> If your distributor doesn't offer you a proper way to upgrade your software
> then you might want to consider trying a different distribution.
>
> Greetings,
> Tackat
>
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