Today the great Marco Committed air into svn. Let me just tell you a bit about air, air is a direct descendant of the air wallpaper, I made the first sketch of it the same day I made the wallpaper, and it tries to make the people that found the Oxygen theme "to black" happy. There is no one fits all design, and hopefully with air we can make a wider spectrum of people love KDE. ( in the future I think we can still make a couple more themes) Its still we hope coherent, there are a lot of small details that are shared with oxygen both qt theme as plasma theme. That gives it a feeling of belonging as part of the same experience. We introduced a brand new element in plasma theming, a cropped background the is placed on the plasmoid canvas, (you will see this in the future taken to new heights as it opens a fantasist new set of opportunities to designers). Its transparent, people love transparent stuff :) (we did some effort to avoid contrast issues, but with certain wallp...
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Why does lowlevel applications get SO nice icons!
It sort of reminds of the Core * logos for OS X: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/8
Those are good enough to eat too. :D
Wow!! You rock guys! This is the best app logo ever made :-)
I hope to see it frequently on my desktop.. now Akonadi code must really stand up to the expectations :D
The concept of Akonadi shown exactly, but actually, since it's not very advertised and doesn't really has it's real website and such kind of stuff - there's not many people to understand the whole deep of the technology and the idea itself. Well, great logo for T-Shirts, but it would be better if there would be many fans of Akonadi. Developers - yes, but hey, i can imagine a guy with Firefox or Amarok logo that can definitely say
- "I'm an Amarok/Firefox fan. It's the best Musik studio/Internet combiner i ever used!".
But what could i say if someone ask me:
- "Hey, nice orb! Whats that? Akonadi? So you're fan of..? Yeah, real geek!"
I'm not against to be a geek. And of course i realy adore the new Akonadi Logo. Just i see some kind of paradox here.
Well, nevermind, just 'Laute gedacht' =)
I would lose the banner (last image in this post) it contains to much graphic elements in the background. this logo would look even better in a minimalistic theme.
The most beautiful logo ever. Period.
And I do also like very much the duotone variants.
Great job Nuno!
Give credit where it's due. You two guys rock.
Working for this community is wonderful.
what is this for a font? it is great!
Keep up the great work! =D
Falls into work of art category, and top rated !
I also think it sends the right "vibe" for akonadi.
Yeah there is some similarities in the concept, but after a close look they are quite difrent.
And implementation wise this was not a 20 minute vector hack ;).
Ok ok im prety sure the mac ones were not a 20 minute thing :).
I think it would be really nice if when you do alt+f2 you exactly this:
http://davigno.oxygen-icons.org/i/runner-1.jpg
Then when you search something it slides down with the options like this:
http://plasma.kde.org/media/plasma_4_1_beta.png
Kinda like the effect in this site:
http://tryruby.hobix.com/
Other than that, I think the buttons needs some work, and it would be nice if the items have more margin, and more contrast.
Keep up the great work!
- kamal