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....

Today Björn Balazs published the results from the last survey an the results point out that I should do a new "send mail" icon , the old one was very nice IMO it avoided the use of an arrow , that we end up using in action icons way more that I would like to. But against facts there is no possible argumentation. :) So I think this might work a bit bett er . So, better? worse ??? What do you think? I would like to avoid mailboxes and stuff like that as they scale pretty badly. # P.S. in the last days I have been working on encrypt document, sign, and lock, type of icons (as you can see in my identi.ca thingy ) and probably the icons in Kmail that deal with that issue will be a bit restyled mostly encryption that right now uses the same metaphor that "lock" does and causes some confusion.

I'm just back from the GCDS. and had a great time there with all of the KDE people and some of the gnome people as well. I had the opportunity to finally meet the tango people and they are great :). Juts like us they the best they can to make the open source desktop rock. My talk was about 2 things, the KDE open service, (got great feedback from several distros about it) and the making the desktop you need... (another way of saying I don't guess what the user wants and its better to ask). So every 15 days we will be conducting icon test on http://www.oxygen-icons.org/survey/ , there is no wrong answer just good ones, ask everybody you know to take it, I'm very interested on the opinions of the people that use the computer occasionally and never used KDE. The first test is about some icons in K3B, its very fast to do the test, follow the link and see all the wonderful stuff http://www.apliki.de/ did for us, find out more in http://www.usability-methods.com/en . The first ...

Thats what I have discovered the last days over what wallpaper should we remove from KDE to make room for the new ones. Nobody loves my vector sunset. Snif snif, don't get it it has no bubbles nor is it black it as a bit but ist not to much, and now its going away, and im going to cry :).... OO cruel cruel world. And now I have to say goodbye to my all time favorite best wallpaper. Vector sunset, we had some fun times didnt we ? :) P.S. never fear all of the ones we remove will be just moved to KDE artwork ;) we wont let you die my precious. nhaahahhahaha, my prechioussss :)

So first thing is to show the mime missing from yesterdays application. It represents individual elements that can be used in projects... Like for example a lamp :) So for the last month I had a poll ruing in the side links so it could diverge some attention to everything going on there. The results were fantastic and most people seemed to like the work so far in kde... So today I launch a new poll asking what in your opinion should be oxygen main focus for the 4.3-4.4 time frame..... PS I know the poll visually sucks and the integration its a google thing, if some one knows of a good themable poll to add please let me know.