KDE Pinheiro

If you are that type of user that uses KDE from trunk them this might not be new to you, but for the rest of the world here goes a screenshot showing some of the stuff Hugo Pereira and I have been working on in Oxygen windeco. Anew color theme that might work better on some less optimal screens, the windeco is now much more configurable and you can set its to be extremely thin or bigger if you so desire, the active glow as been improved, we have new windec buttons that have better contrast and great animation effects. If you can build oxygen windeco from trunk please have a test go with it for a few days and tell us what you think of it.

Today I was working as usual and trying to commit the icons I just finished, wen I realized I can't not today, should not be anything important for me, I can commit tomorrow, but for some reason I couldn't work on other icons, for some reason I see the commit as closure if I don't do it I cant move on, Interesting how the human brain works. A ny way I thought I could spend some time to show some of the icons I did in the past day s. There are some Scribus Kplato kdevelop and KdePim icons there, and they are all in svn :)

Around 4-5 years ago, the appeal project project created Oxygen, original people in the creation of oxygen are my good friends David Vignoni, (The wonderful master of nuvola), and Kenneth Wimer, (the man behind all of kde 3.x artwork management). I just joined later on on a invitation, over time I grew fond of this 2 guys, and discovered, much of myself in them, also there were my teachers. David as a master in checking for details and always trying to overcome ourself, and Ken in the skills one as to acquire to produce something meaningful in OSS. I somtimes forget to say thanks to this 2 persons, you guys ROCK, you changed my life. Now all of this to say that 4.3 is around the corner, 6 more hard working months have passed and oxygen is more alive than ever. And we could not have done it without the help of KEN and David . 3 dots looking into the future, yes this is dot 3 . IT seams just yesterday we started making "prettier pictures". Maybe tomorrow I have more icons to ...

This is just a small post to show a small preview of the extremely narrow down wallpaper short list. The kde people sent me some of the best stuff I have ever seen, and I had a really hard time narrow them down to this 12.... that im only showing in small sizes so the original creators can still do what ever they want with them after we chose the 5 that will go it to replace 5 old ones, (yes 5, 2 would be soooo unfair to everybody that submitted his wonderful pictures .) And this means we have now 5 wallpapers that are going to say goodbye to the default set.... And in your opinion witch 5 should those be??? This means witch 5 wallpapers should in your opinion be removed from the default 15 we ship today in 4.2??? They are in total random order.... P.S. Many many thanks to everyone that submitted wallpapers the little competition was of extreme quality, and I'm very sorry to the ones that did not made it to the final 12. This does not say anything about the quality of your work. ...

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" :)

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

This is a quick post just t show some of the latest developments in oxygen first , krita icon and krita mimetype Second Kchart withe his mimetype alongside. Finally the midi mimetype in another position.

Last week was wonderful for oxygen, we set a net commit record. And made some of the most exiting work i have seen so far has icon goes. David Miller just joined the Oxygen effort and he is ...... well amazing. The mime type icons are going through a huge amount of work and are rely looking so much better David (the other one ;) ) is making some of his best work ever, there. The Sound theme just got some more fresh super sounds from Nuno Povoa. And I redid the mouse and some more little stuff that i think are ok ;).