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4.3 Is arround the corner! I need you!

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Do you take great pictures? Does every one says that you rock as a photographer? Do you love KDE? If your answer was yes to this 3 questions you should be sending me 1 just 1 of what you believe is your best wallpaper photo, so that we can include it as one of the new wallpapers included in Kde 4.3. I will be selecting 2 of them to replace some of the old ones we have from 4.2. In this release I wont include nothing from me only remove some of my old ones. (there is to much nuno in kde as is) Only 1920x1200 or bigger wallpapers will be accepted. Only wallpapers containing the full name of the photographer and a reference stating the license (lgpl v3 is beter) will be reviewed. I wont release the ones that don't make the cut! (the original creators keep them and can reevaluate the license as they see fit.) The criteria for selection is purely mine, I will ask for opinions from the oxygen crew and the kde marketing people. Dead line one week from now :) I will show the winners here ...

Vintage icon for all your vintage games!

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The team in MameExecutor needed an icon for their upcoming V1.0 release, that is coming out this weekend, they have asked-me to do it some time ago, but I went for the arcade machine icon and that didn't worked very well, because the shape is not the best one for that. So I ended up revolving my faded memories of my younger years wen I played those old games, and had so much more fun will doing so. Here we go, something that might bring you fond memories of the past, just like MameExecutor does. P.S. Small icons still missing, I need to redo it for small sizes. The joystick still needs a bit of love 2. But not today, already spent 6 hours on this :). And K3B needs more icons.

Small update.

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This is almost a identi.ca "dent" just to show the progress on the optical-media-video. I hope I have all of the k3b icon set done by the end of this week. On the fonts front i had a lot of positive feed back on this issue but its not easy convincing every one so please if you have a little bit of time try my proposed settings... and share your opinions. One major advice i want to give distros is to make sure sub pixel RGB aa is off. IMO its very discuss-able if it does produces better results and you are not sure your user is using a RGB vertical TFT.

kgpg icon, and fonts.

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Ok first thing the icon. The kgpg people wanted me to do something they could print in large size so I updated the application icon a bit and you just need to use the svgz in svn to get is as big as you might want to. During the period I was in berlin I noticed most people never chage their font set up, and during the same period I went to every single computer there to change the defoult setings as fonts goes, and most peple like them, and asked if i could blog about it..... so here we go.... nuno's simple rule book for sharper fonts...... #1 set your hinting style to full. even if you like big fonts the result is much sharper if your hinting is set to full. #2 Use a smaller font size like 8 or 9. specially if you use low or average hinting the small fonts have a much thiner trace that makes the font thickness be exactly 1 pixel. If your fonts thickness is not 1 then you are in trouble. Low hinting style and large fonts make traces of about 1.3 1.5 thikness that result in blur...

Back to fire.

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Fire in the sense of burning, aka K3B "Burn Baby Burn".I did not have a hamburger, but I'm slowly getting the designer mojo back. also took the opportunity to make some hidef icons for some devices. like for example example.... and the old time favorite floppy disk, just for fun, really, I know no one uses them any more :).

A block of black!

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Yesterday and today I have been fighting with a film strip for the K3B icons and I have totally blocked, usually my answer is a bad movie and some junk food. And that usually works, or..... heee... not, either way I still get to eat a burger :). But today I decided to try a different angle, do something black, as you all know I have a thing for black and bubbles.... so here it goes a blackish bluish thing that you can use as an wallpaper, or nothing :). In case you are wondering if my icon block is gone .... Nope.... But I did not had a burger :) thats a good thing right?.... hummmm Right?..... I wonder :P.