KDE Pinheiro

In the past months i have been working more than i ever did in my intire life, the good thing is that i'm not to tired. So what have i been up to? Well Oxygen mostly, i decided to redo most of the action icons, and try to presuit a new way of expresing them, must say i think its is working, also david's icons are loking sweet and kenenth made an amasing joob on some icons of its own. Spread kde site, well some work there, but i have "seen the light" and think i will try to push in a slightly diferent direction. Phonon site, done joob! The site should be hiting the fans some time soon. Some koffice icons, in the old crystal style. I have been talking to the koffice guys, and we have come to an understendment to join their icon set with the one i make for openoffice so this time koffice will have a truly complete icon set. All of the oo.o icon theme plus the koffice theme rounds up to more than diferent 1100 icons so big joob in front of me for the coming months. If ...

Good question. Well I like it! And I like it, because it makes me happy, because it is a pleasure to work with it, because it makes what I want and it does it as I want. But above everything I love our community, i like the way as several groups inside kde support each other to produce something better. Solid , it is a good example of this. New and exciting project that looked for support of kde to make what had to be made, not the actual code cor general project idea, but the other stuf that is so important this days. Communication! Couse we are not good at everything we do, well not the majority of us, Kévin Ottens decided it was a good idea to take some atention to this side of things and send us at Oxygen an email about the nead for an logo for the solid project, (we were very hapy to do it) . It happens that it had been aron that it had pointed it in our direction. We ended up to do one more icon for the web site, this one is also a part of our Oxygen icon themen and it was ma...

Just wanted to send my very best wishes for 2006 and a Merry, Merry Christmas to all of the KDE.

what about them?? they are just one more icon! Humm not really, in fact the different kind of icons have different kinds of usage, and almost all icon themes treat them has "one more icon". In fact this is a common mistake that i did myself several times. For starters action icons are normally rendered with a very different background than most icons, wen they are made, normally in a vector program the background is white in action icons normally it is .... well your favorite window color, that poses one problem the preemption of the limits of the icon can be misinterpreted by the user, thus the usage of solid outline helps in this aspect. In second place they are small :(, yea has an kind of artist it the worst part, you do a very detailed and perfect drawing, men it looks sweet, but then you render it to an 16x16 pixel map, and that it, 16x16 little squares of solid color, and we did al that funny details that were so important went? Lost! So if you are doing action icons i...

Two weeks ago i went to this event in my home country, it had some lectures about OSS, an among others they had the privilege of having kde developer Josef Spillner, i just made it to the last day of the conference, but i manage to atend de Kde vs. Gnome lecture. Well it went lot better than i expected, zero casualties and no injuries :) from the gnome side we had Juan José Sánchez Penas, and on our side we had Josef Spillner. I managed to say some things myself and the debate went pretty well. But what made me think was the fact that i was the only Portuguese guy that actually was working on one of the projects!!! That did it i decided i was going to create a LUG. The idea was popping on my head from time to time but i did never got the time to take it forward, only to discover that the satatus of things would not change, so wy be plain tired wen you can be extremely tired. ;) i had some contacts of some local kde user and already knew yagami (working a bit on kopete related stuff). W...

In the last months i din't had much time for blogging, but that was great, couse i'm spending all of my spare time and some of my other time ;) in this great project, Oxygen. And what is so exyting about one more icon theme? Well it is not just an icon theme! It is that but its so much more. One of the new things we are talking about in the oxygen group is the possibility of light efects on svg, depending on external factors, like position on scren. Zack over at Troltech is implementing a realy nice engine to render svg into qt and one of the ideas is to make special inclusions into the svg code so that we can make the svg more "interavctive". And this kinda stuf can then be seen all over kde, in widgets, decorations, special made websites, and not just icons. One more thing i hope to keep doing wille at the oxygen group is layouts for kde related pages, one of the last ones i did was this http://img284.imageshack.us/my.php?image=text138731qs.png but this one cam...

Total eclipse of the Sun, this morning wen i was going to work the moon pass wright in front of the sun, unfortunately my cellular camera is very bad in the picture i took is very bad, but you get the point. It was a very exiting thing to see, cause it was a total eclipse, the only problem was that it took place to early in the morning 9:45 and the moon was still to small in the orison so it didn't get to dark. any way it was nice, and now i can say that "I SAW A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". And that is almost what happened to me after Malaga, that i totally eclipsed from the blogg, but that has an as good explanation as the real eclipse, I am swamped with work, really swamped. so no time for webloguing or anything else for that mater. but i think i got much of that covered this weekend, and i managed the finish today the logo Fa b invited me to do, well its only part of what he asked me but i plan to finish the layout for the site this weekend "I promise fab ;)...