KDE Pinheiro

So flowing the feedback from yesterdays blog post here is an update on the status of the icon. Did not made the arrow green or blue for several reasons, most of them that have to so with the over usage of arrows and the fact that the green one already have a more document local browsing meaning to them. Plus I think that this one that pop up from the envelop itself makes sense to me at least, and avoid hading unnecessary visual clutter. One thing don't judge a icon contrast by the way it looks on white background specially if this contrast is made with alpha shadow, the white tends to fade it off. The same icon on actual oxygen use... Might still play with the 22x22 version a tad bit but overall I am happy with it... For 16x16 there is a option to just use the arrow like we do in many mail icons, we could just use the tiny arrow that is the defining element. Maybe....

So much stuff. First thing first, icons yep that what I do mostly, one of the nice aspects of working in KDAB is being closer to people that work on several other stuff in kde that you tend not to talk in a regular basis, like Pim people for example, so after work latly I have been doing lots and lots of pim icons, its a total remake of the ones we had, basacly making them look a bit better on a new color sckeam im prepping up for KDE 4.4 and Oxygen. (nothing major just a fix for low quality screens that ma ke oxygen widget theme look like "snow white", no no preview yet I'm still testing some solutions and maybe we will need to tweak oxygen main gradients a bit, btw hpereira as been working on several aspect of oxygen as well, and the new oxygen windeco looks great). Any way back to icons, so this is just a snapshot of what I been up to as oxygen and icons goes since last post. P.S. not all icons are mail icons obviously.

Today Hugo Pereira Da Costa hacker extraordinare of Nitrogen, the very popular window decoration theme in kde-look, merged it into Oxygen, this means that we will be able to have just one theme that can do what oxygen and ozone did and much much more. We will keep working on new options for its and removing options that can be removed. The shadow/glow generation code is being enhanced to offer more options and better glow. It introduces a new approach to the division between oxygen and ozone dilemma, that was suggested by another great hacker/designer Thomas Luebking, that ofers a nice option to people that want to color active and inactive windows in different colors, without making it look completely awkward. " The oxygen style and window decoration have been the primary reason which made me switch to kde4 a couple of years ago. The window decoration at that time had however too few configuration options to my taste, and so Nitrogen (a fork of the original Oxygen) was born, th...

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 :)

This is just a really quick post to show some of the icons i been working in the past few days, mostly kdevelop icons and office like ones, also made a couple for Kontact. And made a new overlay for unmounted devices. Hope you like it, couple more done, an uncountable number to go :-) . In case you are wondering the first ones are part of a group (kdevelop) were the particular theming uses special green, and they can be showed out of context so the context part is needed...

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 ...

Mofux asked me just a few minutes ago how come I stooped blogguing like I was, and i said that " I don't have much time for that and honestly all my professional issues are getting on my nerves". But that got me to think that the best I can do is do what I do that is (working, and talking about it), well at least it doesn't hurt, and I can still have some one telling-me "We just copy vista windows 7 or what ever", (I don't really mind that anymore). I love everyone. So in my long quest to keep myself busy, I found new itches to scratch, and some old ones as well... itch #1 koffice like icons, itch #2 Kdevelop icons, (screen-shot tomorrow) itch #3 making new tests (probably about kdevelop) itch #4 making reports for the old tests (got some volunteers to help-me on that, should be great fun). itch #5 get back on all the people that I talked to during Akademy on all the work we are supposed to do. and hitch #6 get back to daily blogging. This should keep...

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!!!

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 ...