KDE Pinheiro

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 ...

As promised 3 more winners. Simone Lazzaris sent this one, still unnamed. Midnight_in_Karelia, great pic from Anastasiya S. Litvinenko. Rings of Saturn by Zoltan Vass.

As usual the title says it all.... In no particular order .... Aghi by Matteo Nobile. Altra, by the games art master It-s, Eugene Trounev (you rock) And Finally "Evening" by Christoph Kummer Tomorrow we will announce the 3 remaining ones . stay tunned they should be in svn in no time. Hope you all enjoy them as much as I do.

The last weeks we have been thinking and thinking on what should be the default wallpaper for the upcoming kde 4.3. This is always a very complicated decision because is one of the most prominent branding elements on kde specially now that we do all of the marketing artwork revolving around that single wallpaper.. IN the mid of the discussion i had the idea that we could try to make branded version of our default wallpapers for the distros totally free of charge, It-s agreed with me that we could do that....I thought This could be just the beguiling of greater cooperation on shared branding between kde and the distros... Thre are loads of subjects as branding and artwork goes were we could cooperate in way it would benefit kde and the distros as well... I shared my basic idea with promo people and the rest of the artists in oxygen... and Aaron evolved the concept pretty nicely... So we officially announce the kde branding service, supposed to be a platform for your distro branding...

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 :)

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. ...

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 ...

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.

So after working for the past days only on icons today I decided to post 2 wallpapers cause there is more to oxygen than icons, much more.... So here they go.... The first one is a wallpaper I worked wen trying to come up with ideas for the media desktop activity in plasma. Works pretty well for media content. 1600x1200 The second one is a colored version of air in more pastel/green tones I can make it in pretty much any color you might want so.... yeah just need to ask. Hope you guys like it. P.S. the feedback from last blog post about the ecosystem gave me a lot of ideas that I will probably make a poll for the best ones just after the current poll is dead. so 2 days for cliking those links in the side. DIGG