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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] stories to work on
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-24 18:33:21
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On Wednesday 24 December 2003 07:25, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2003 10:43, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > KDE 3.2 previews:
> > 
> > http://www.pycs.net/lateral/stories/12.html
> > http://www.francesc.net/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=29&blogId=1
> > 
> > Btw, overwhelmingly I'm seeing these reviews praise Plastik to high
> > heavens.
> 
> Yes, Plastik is really great, if you work 10 hours a day with KDE - much
> better than kermamik. Plastik is a very clean and easy still - still not
> boring. I am only concerned because Plastik looks very much like Windows XP
> (window decoration, button highlighting, etc).

hrm... the window deco isn't loading here, and i've never actually used it. 
but as for the widget style, i personally don't find it overly XP-ish. in 
some of its tastefully understated looks there are similar directions in XP's 
default look, but perhaps that's just because it's one of those "good 
directions" that crop up often. 

i'm fine with Keramik myself (i'm using it on this machine =), but i also 
realize that it's probably a good idea to communicate progress in the desktop 
through "progress" (aka changes ;) in the look of things. obviously, randomly 
changing the look and feel of things from release to release is not a good 
strategy, but when KDE4 development begins (which at most is likely two 
releases away) we may well wish to change the default style. at that point 
perhaps we can look at making Plastik the default?

what _would_ a change from Kermik to Plastik communicate, exactly? a more 
subdued and "buttoned down" desktop? something more "mature" and less 
"youthful exuberance"? a high class orchestral chamber vs a high class 
nightclub?

just thinking out loud here ....

> A nice thing is also thinkeramik, though it definitly has too many GUI

thinkeramik looks like a frankenstein experiment and has way too many XP 
influences, IMHO...

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Aaron J. Seigo
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