KDE Pinheiro

Some times people ask me what I do. My answer is .... well I'm a Civil Engineer. I do bridges an stuff like that mostly scaffolding. But in reality I'm more of a Resources Manager. But as i spend so much time in front of a computer making artwork I must call myself an Artist or Designer. So hi from a Civil Engineer/ Resources Manager/Artist/Designer. :) You would not believe the places were I have drawn icons :)

Vlad EOS wallpaper became default, one of the things that was keeping us down from doing that was moire problems we might have wen scaling it, but has we hade versions for every size in this world, it was only a mater of the selector in plasma getting the wright one, ruphy will take care of that. the other problem was making it an svg..... so we could use it inside icons in order for people to relate the icons to desktop. So today i decide to try to push inkscape to the limit, and so i did and in doing so i created this. Had to remove the decorative lines in order to have no moire problems but i guess its pretty simple and similar to Vlad original work. svgz Yes only 3.8 kb :) use latest inkscape compiled from source.

I don't have the final wallpapers to announce today, only tomorrow. But I will let you have, totally for free, one I did today. ;)

Vlad from http://www.vladstudio.com was one of the contestants to great oxygen wallpaper contest, and provide us with great wallpapers, not all of them got in the final list that will be publicly announced very very soon (we got all the ok's form the creators). One of his submitted wallpapers was, this great image , we didn't considered it much of a KDE wallpaper, but its a kick ass oxygen wallpaper, So we decided to ask Vlad if even not making the final cut, if we could use it? So click on the correct link to get your first official Oxygen wallpaper. 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1280x800 1440x900 1600x1200 1680x1050 1920x1200

Nathan Willis decided to do an article on Oxygen, and decided to make some innuendos about the" closed oxygen ".... He based that on David's blog about it ... David just expressed some very inoffensive opinions on the usage of oxygen, it's unfinished nature and the fact that it was being badly repacked for gnome. (bad, being considered one of the pillars of kde4 and all) I guess nothing extreme or closed, in fact it's rather open to be stating his view publicly, I have the same exact opinion. To make things clear, we don't care all that much I mean, if we did we would use another license, dahhhh. The only thing that I personally dislike is the novelty effect one might lose on the release of kde 4. Several people decided to do the same thing, repack the oxygen theme and make it widely public. Normally after we have a talk with these people and explaining it's for kde 4 and that some marketing value might be lost by their doing so they agree not to release ...

S o in oxygen we have 2 currents the ones that like an 1 pxl outline and the ones that like something a little bit bigger. 1 pixel outline more than 1 pixel outline Personally I like 1 pixel outline for lighter colors and more than 1 for darker themes. But what do you think?

Lately I have been researching a lot on usability and mostly the merits of Fitt's Law, the more I studied this law the more I believe that Raptor's approach to the issue is fundamentally correct. Being a menu an appearing were ever a user might want to, one can not make usage of side infinite space, so what one might only use is the infinite space that is the space under were your mouse is. The good thing about Raptor is that it can do that, put the thing you want to click right under your mouse, Because 1 It knows were you mouse is, 2 it has a good idea on were you want to go. But imagine it did not guessed entirely correctly, well it might be the second best answer or third, the ones that will be next to the mouse againg very good according to Fitt's Law. Another good thing about Raptor is that its the next best thing after a pie chart in terms of clicking what you need, the number of pixel in a straight line are the ones that count, I believe that the fundamenta...