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Probably by now most people have probably seen Marco Martin wonderful work on the new 4.1 theme I started on Tokamak in Milan. Apart from the trivial artwork, it provides new theming possibility's into plasma. Like for example now clock pointers can have shadows ;). So whats next? 4.2 Obviously! I plan to spend allot more time working in plasma in the 4.2 series. And we have already started to work on those things we can improve :) This is just a first approach to some of the new concepts plasma introduces. But this is all for the 4.2, for 4.1 there is still alot of work to be done before the artwork freeze so need to get back to it. ;)

Thomas Mönicke and myself have been working on a new version of our akonadi logo. After some talks we decided to do something more in the lines of the logo Thomas made. It took quite some time to get it like I wanted and a lot of pencil and blender sketching. But after one week rambling with it I think we got it. Updated version with all the artwork! I hope you guys like I do :) DIGG

I promised to Urs Wolfer, several months ago to work with him on a new KDM theme that matched the work we were doing a bit all over. To do the KDM theme I needed a new wallpaper. Here it is in 2 versions. This one works beter as an walppaper IMO. This one is being used for the KDM. Any way the Svg link. Hope you will like it. Now i need to think about a new logo for a cool project. Wish me luck :)

From my last blog eatery and a lot of user feedback talking to several people I arrived to a new proposal. Notice that I'm not using shadows or anything like that and the active window is in the back. What have I done? Increased the contrast of the double outline for the active window. Removed part of a gradient on inactive and placed a new darker gradient on inactive, also made the butons in outline mode in inactive. Click on image for context. So give me your opinions on this subject and if I'm in the right path or not. On a side note I decided to enter the akonadi logo contest with this entry, the 2D Monochrome Version looks a lot like Nvidia logo so i will have to remake it :P (Miss that some how).

Arrived from Milan quite tired, and still had to pick up my monitor from the store that went dead. So wen i finally arrived Home I just had the strength to get to bed and catch up on my sleep. So only today I find the time and the monitor to get back to work, Milan was a lot of fun, amazing people Riccardo did an excellent job, setting the meting and the space, and I'm very happy with the talks we manged to have with the plasma developers, bringing the gap between coders and "people that do pretty pictures" down a lot. I also managed to start working on a new plasma theme that brings oxygen and plasma together, but without losing identity and difference, something different that looks part of complete experience (I'm very happy with the look) .It will also marks the start of truly complete themes, that really theme other plasmids. (this will be a lot of work BTW). Well in the process of working i also managed to work a bit with Andre on the twiter plasmoid, th...

Need some feed back on some variations I been working on oxygen windeco. click on the image for a more contextual image. Right now my favorites are 3 (little changes from how it looks now) and 4 ( flat background and inverted line) 2 (no RGB chages) might be interesting but I'm not sure it will work on most color variation also kills a bit the one slab look. 5 is really simply but removes the buttons not sure its good idea 1 ..... I simply don't like (not sure what it is doing there :) ) Also made some modifications to active state extra shine on top more contrast in dividing line and color on the buttons symbols. Opinions, flames, etc wellcome

Well one of the configuration options in kwin for the longest time was color... I know that i have know that for the longest time it made sense for the longest, time and i gess it still does . But oxygen started with a new idea a all in one look a unified look, and that poses a problem how does one set an active from an inactive window apart. After some work it was decided that this was enough.... Now some users think we should color the windeco. Well In all true honesty I cant see how I can do that, and still be coherent with the style, its an ok option but its not oxygen. The first time I saw oxygen style was wen Kenneth made a rendering for me of a ceramic slab with rounded corners, that is the ground basis of oxygen, as a mater of fact I'm willing to change most of oxygen except that cause its the foundation of oxygen. What I'm going to redo is the windeco buttons and had a bit of color to them so that will help as well in setting them apart. Any way what is your opini...