The power of team work
Some months ago when the #kwin Channel was created I decided to stop by and ask the wonderful people there about some weird ideas I had about shadows and fixing the bad windec corners on Oxygen. Luckily Lucas Murray had the patience to listen to me and actually something was started.
Basically we can now provide custom shadows for kwin and that includes active shadow and inactive shadow. The big bonus we got was that we can now ship shadows that include our corners without the aliasing problems. Casper Boemann endured me all weekend long moaning about pixels so we could get this results...
I Must say I'm extremely happy with the results it seemed like something impossible to get just a a few months ago.
On another front we managed to get rid of the not so pretty scrollbars we had thanks to the fantastic and amazingly fast work of Huynh Huu Long.
Its a fantastic experience working with such a wonderful group of people that can get toguether and produce real visible improvement.
Next week, is Plasma working week and huge improvements are already going on there so kde 4.1 was great but 4.2 will definitely ROCK!!!
Basically we can now provide custom shadows for kwin and that includes active shadow and inactive shadow. The big bonus we got was that we can now ship shadows that include our corners without the aliasing problems. Casper Boemann endured me all weekend long moaning about pixels so we could get this results...
I Must say I'm extremely happy with the results it seemed like something impossible to get just a a few months ago.
On another front we managed to get rid of the not so pretty scrollbars we had thanks to the fantastic and amazingly fast work of Huynh Huu Long.
This is the result....
Its a fantastic experience working with such a wonderful group of people that can get toguether and produce real visible improvement.Next week, is Plasma working week and huge improvements are already going on there so kde 4.1 was great but 4.2 will definitely ROCK!!!
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KDE is looking much better now. :)
Great work everyone.
-Wade
Just curious, as I cannot test shadows due to my hardwired graphics card ;( , what happens for maximized windows? Is there some glowing as well, for consistency?
Great job so far, keep up the good work.
Is there any plan for improving the menus style?
But does it mean that the old shiny blue scrollbars are gone forever?
Haha
Cool shadows. And yeah, I hated that scrollbar really, this is just more consistent.
I saw your earlier concepts of the "blue" shadow.. it was very bright; but in today's screenshot it is much more subtle and non-intrusive! Bravo!!
And the new scrollbars are wonderful. I kinda thought the shiny blue bars were kinda Macish and relatively corny compared to the whole elegance of the Oxygen style .. but the new scrollbars are even more elegant!!
Great Job Pinheiro, plasma devs and kwin devs!!
big thanks to everyone!
Are there any plans to reintreduce the tabbar from the beta versions of KDE 4.0?
I liked the contrast between the active tab and the inactive and the difference between the black tabbar and the rest of the window.
You are doing a really great job, especially the icons are awnsome!!
We all love you!
That's not to say that there still isn't room for improvement in other areas (I like the look of those new scrollbars better than the old ones), but that little corner fix is breath of fresh air. Thanks.
This work is far from done today we have fixed this, tomorow its a new thing....
in fact wen its done ist time to start a new thing...
This is the adgantage/problem of OSS.
@luke note taken...
@anonimous menus shoulg get beter aswell with this patch
@anonimous not sure this shadows will be defoult let alone criple yur need for the other ones.
@ phlogiston I'm afraid so... they were out of style and wre the remains of a rather poor idea I had..
but, i trust the oxygen team knows what it is doing. keep up the awesome job!
The slightly bevel-y, metallic-y look of the new sliders is very slick.
I think I'd like to see window theme use that, I think it might compliment the rest of the deep-rich-coloured-slightly-glossy look of the desktop, more than the flat gray currently used.
That's just my opinion though.
I'd agree though, that the old sliders could be toned down and given a little more consistency though.
Any way though, Oxygen is beautiful.
This is GREAT! Much better scrollbars really. Those blue ones where not that great and I always thought they didn't fit with the rest of Oxygen.
The blue shadow is cool for clarity and constistent with the blue edge on a selected text box.
Very good work, thanks!
It does have a satiny texture that is not echoed elsewhere in the interface; iirc.
Oxygen, in my opinion, is the most attractive, if perhaps not most consistent(yet), visual style present in a modern operating system.
mat69
Keep up the great work =D
You guys are so great that even M$ is copying you now for Windows 7 :P
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the icon for ms-word files is missing. I only have a question mark. thats rather annoying because all my clients send me word-files and i have allways those strange question marks. Can you change this for kde 4.2?
thank you, i love you artwork!!!!
that was a bug. Its fixed now the mime was made in the very beguining.
great, thank you.