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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Bug 59940] New: Adoption of dotNET sytle and MKUltrawindow
From:       Gordon Tyler <gordon () doxxx ! net>
Date:       2003-06-17 15:22:31
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Gav Wood wrote:
> 	First Topic: Keramik. People tend to like it very much, but after a week or 
> 	so, they tend to change it to a simpler theme, like Light, or dotNET. "It's 
> 	very nice, but it tends to get in my way", one said. 
> 	Seems people tend to dislike pushbuttons.
> 
> personally, i liked keramic for about a week of using kde 3. then it became 
> just too glitzy and ott for general usage. sure it gives kde it's "own look", 
> but is it really worthy of being the default look? i'm thinking not.
> 
> let the flame wa...er...discussion commence :-)

I'll throw in my lit match by saying: Yes, I agree that Keramik, while 
cool eye-candy, is not good for daily use. I think that the default 
style for KDE definitely needs to change for 3.2.

However, what that style will be is also going to be a hot topic. I 
don't agree with the original poster's suggestion of dotNET and MKUltra. 
dotNET is uninspiring; I find the Alloy style to be much nicer and easy 
on the eye: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6390, the 
second screenshot has a better colour scheme than the first. The MKUltra 
window decoration style is even worse. The buttons are tiny and hard to 
see and it looks ugly to me. A window decoration style like 
kwin_3dnomore (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4213) or 
Glow (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5575) are more to 
my liking. The original Highcolor window decoration style is still good too.

Ciao,
Gordon

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