KDE Pinheiro

I started playing around KDE so many years ago I can't even remember. Well I can't wen but I do remember the how. How I felt, wen using something that made a revolution inside my head. And the revolution was not because it was a great piece of software, or because of the wonderful graphics, but couse of the instant feeling I had that this software was made by people, not a corporation but real people! The fundamental Idea that common people one crumb at the time can and make a difference, is something that I never forgot. Over the yeras I got to know and admire some of those people, the timed passed and I started to help what little crumbs I could to this wonderful cake KDE is. But today I got the Icing on my KDE cake, the mail brought me the KDE Akademy award along with something that that made my day (scratch that) made my year, a Document signed by many of those people I admire for so many years. To this I SAY THANK YOU, a big THANK YOU KDE!

Well it is! according to the weather site its 30 cº but i think ts much more. But you might ask how come I'm talking about the weather??? Simple, I have been working on the weather plasmoid with Shawn Starr, Leeo, Marco Martin is implementing the slider/tab with some really nice animations. And we might have some action going on with the Wikipedia people to provide the pictures for each city. So we have a lot of people working on this its great :P. One major part of this is is making about 40 weather icons that we need to do any way cause 11 weather icons are part of the freedesktop.org naming speck, so a small preview of what we have so far... Still a lot of room for improvement obviously.

Wen you work on something very visible, on a extremely popular project as KDE is you get a lot of unfriendly comments, about your effort, and the thing that hurts the most other than the comment being rather effortless to get the full extent of the problem, is the lack of support one gets from the peers. Very often oxygen was a victim of this problem, sometimes there was an actual problem some times there was not, and there are still many many problems. But the thing we always could count on was the support from our peers, like Aaron, he many times as supported us, trusted us, and did that effort to say, "there are problems we are here to fix those problems". Rome was not build in a day, nor was it ever the perfect city for every one, it was the joint effort of many people creating something new every day. So this time is the time to say, We SUPPORT you Aaron, Plasma is one of the most vibrant and dynamic groups I have the pleasure to work with, and its all cause of you, w...

Seams some people don't like me doing bubbles! So I will admit i might have a problem here some sort of bubble syndrome. Any way the image. and the source svg just 8,8 Kb, I love svg. Took inspiration to do this svg from the amazing picture took by www.johnkimbler.com

So its just one question, Do you think this works as an wallpaper? And if so in which color?

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