Air was the wallpaper we introduced in KDE 4.2, but that is just the beginning of something larger. Air is supposed to be different than what Oxygen is, something that tries to appeal to a user base looking for a more "sexy" experience than Oxygen (yeah I know you are out there :) ), but to still have the capability of merging nicely with what we have now. The first thing we started working on was a Plasma theme. Plasma, with it's immense plasticity and a fantastic coder team, allows us to try to push for new ideas. Another extremely cool thing about Plasma is it's ability to become anything you want it to be. So a user in KDE 4.3 might have a desktop that looks like this, if that is his wish, without having to use external software: (click for fullscreen mode) This is an example of how simple one can make a desktop in the 4.3 Plasma once we all manage to get all of our plans working. The new systray speck will help, the work being done on the task bar will allow you ...
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I'm wondering how the memory consumption is nowadays? The last time I tried the Oxygen style (a month or two ago) it increased the memory consumption of every single KDE app by about 5-8MB, as measured by ksysguard (note that this increase was *not* shared memory!)
It looked very nice and light and clean, though :)
Keep up the good work!
David has some on his blog:
http://davigno.oxygen-icons.org/?p=43
The style and windec look very nice to me. I'm no artist, but they look very clear and clean, and (hooray!) thoroughly unlike Windows. Hopefully this will help to eliminate a couple of kommon kriticisms of KDE in one fell swoop!
Anyway, I'm glad to see work on Oxygen progressing. Keep up the good work!
Luke
Greetings from Argentina.
A graphic designer that supports open source.