KDE Pinheiro

Wile doing the composition of the clock i shown yesterday and some fixing to the handles so they are more different i realized it might be interesting to share a bit of all the wells and turns it has. So we start out with making a base a canvas that has some effects and a contrast drop shadow, the dorpshadow has to be then exported into png in a big size and then re imported and rescaled... then we made a copy of the shadow bit.... nex t we create a fully opaque bg because we cant create a cliping area in plasma and I dont want to see the plasmoid andles under all of the clock. Next we create the pointers and the shadows for each one, we need to do the same as we did for the dropshadow in the clock shadows.... the pointers need to be 100% opaque so we get good contrast betwin the shadow and the pointers, we cant clip the shadows couse they have a difrent rotation point.... next we make a copye of the details of the clok to overlay on top of the pointers so we get a transparency look....

So the last few days I haven't been able to do any real icon work because i have been busy with real life work , and prepping the artwork for the 4.3 release. That mens playing with plasma stuff and helping Marco Martin do his magic... So we reworked the plasma air theme so its more air theme and less oxygen... they go anlong very nicly together but they should not use the same elements :). Marco is working on the really not so fun part of the task bar and panel, were me I got the clock part :) aka "the easy one" :). Here you have a mock svg (final thing should be almost exactly the same ). a close up of the clock "in mid air" :)

Oxygen widget style needs work we know that, but time is scarce and the oxygen qt widget developers are incredibly busy in other parts of kde to so... but we did managed to bring some nice new features to 4.3 and kill some nasty bugs, like bug 163990 and bug 166082... so here you have new and improved tabs. Think its a major improvement. from the old ones. kudos to Huynh Huu Long for his usual brilliant work. There is still much work to be done, and like in all other areas of oxygen help is appreciated ;).

Today was a really busy busy day with lot's of work, but at least I managed to pay all of my most pressing bills and I feel much better with that taken care of. But on the not so good side that left me with not so much time to work on the several icon sets I have pending. Means that I did not managed to finish K3B, or Mameexecuter, just found the time to do some more size versions and a new hidef device icon. Some side notes.... The blue ray logo (bb-logo) people answerer my email with an ok to use the logo if I have blue-ray player... But to be on the safe side I will make unbranded versions of this icons and upload it as well so people can chose which one to use.... Im completly impressed by the quality of the wallpaers submited im my litle quest and I am actualy considreing doing somthing I usualy dont do that is changing the rules in the midle of the game that is choose more than 2 wallpapers, yes they are that good!!!