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Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Bug 59940] New: Adoption of dotNET sytle
From:       "Luke Chatburn" <luke () linuxcomment ! com>
Date:       2003-06-25 10:21:52
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Hi all...

I have been watching this conversation for a while. To be honest, I use
Classic windecs and Galaxy most of the time, but it feels not very
polished....

I wanted to point you all toward kde-look for a moment; there is a new SuSE
RPM of Alloy out.

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=6306

The screeny that caught my eye was this:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?file=6306-2.png

I believe that there are elements here which might be the way forward for
KDE's default style.

- First and foremost, I'm not sure about the window decs. I do like the ones
from KDE 2 Classic, though, although the contrast is a bit sharp there, so
it might need greys instead of strong black on edges, for example.

- The colour combination of that range of greys and that blue are wonderful.
As a first colour set for people arriving to KDE, they are would be great.

- The toolbar icons are a little large. They need more room to the top and
the bottom, otherwise they feel sqeezed by the bar.

- The small icons in the Konqy tree are superb. Neat and clean.

- The Konqy back/forward/home/refresh/stop buttons are not to my taste;
neither is the revised K menu icon.

- The faint, limited gradiant on the toolbars is nice. Keramik is a little
too much.

- The stipple effect for the tear-off toolbars is very nice...!

- The taskbar task size is good and they look very clean... Can't fault it.

-The scrollbars are nice, especially the light indents for the grab at the
middle. The arrows top/bottom, left/right are a little rough, though... the
edging is a little too strong and spare pixels at the corners are a bit too
obvious...

I think clean-ups here, with Crystal and an alternative windec (cleaned
Classic?) would give a really great, neat look.

-Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Leese" <william@leese.nl>
To: <kde-usability@mail.kde.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Bug 59940] New: Adoption of dotNET sytle
andMKUltrawindowdecoration as KDE defualt look


> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 20:03, Keunwoo Lee wrote:
> > OK, I'm quite happy that people seem to mostly agree that it's time for
> > Keramik to cease being the default theme, and also that we've moved
beyond
> > "Use my favorite theme!" to "What critera should a theme satisfy?"
>
> While I might have suggested this, I don't think there's much point in
> spending too much time on these criteria. Afterall, once we have our
perfect
> list of criteria how many styles are going to comply? None, no doubt about
> that. Will someone create a new style based on these criteria? Probably
not..
>
> Ironically as someone mentioned the KDE Classic style complies with just
about
> every criteria, but people wanted the eyecandy offered by Keramik instead.
>
> Is anyone interested in tweaking the KDE Classic or HighColor Classic (a
more
> modern looking style in comparison) to make it visually more appealing and
> compliant to criteria deemed essential for usability?
>
> Personally I think that with a few minor tweaks HighColor Classic could
both
> look good and be highly usable.
>
> - William Leese
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