KDE Pinheiro

Today the great Marco Committed air into svn. Let me just tell you a bit about air, air is a direct descendant of the air wallpaper, I made the first sketch of it the same day I made the wallpaper, and it tries to make the people that found the Oxygen theme "to black" happy. There is no one fits all design, and hopefully with air we can make a wider spectrum of people love KDE. ( in the future I think we can still make a couple more themes) Its still we hope coherent, there are a lot of small details that are shared with oxygen both qt theme as plasma theme. That gives it a feeling of belonging as part of the same experience. We introduced a brand new element in plasma theming, a cropped background the is placed on the plasmoid canvas, (you will see this in the future taken to new heights as it opens a fantasist new set of opportunities to designers). Its transparent, people love transparent stuff :) (we did some effort to avoid contrast issues, but with certain wallp...

After reading many of the comments, on Aseigo blog I reached to the conclusion that most people did not get the idea. We don't want to kill each of the distributions own branding, we want to share, I would not slap a KDE logo on top of your distribution logo, nothing like that. What we are after is creating something that is recognizable across the room something people can see as recognizable, a "hey that is pretty and I have seen it some ware else". I would do my best to keep a strong visual connection to the specific distro brand but in a way that one brand doesn't kill the other. I see distros having no problem on using the icon theme, that is a huge part of the branding part, distros do in that remark little to no modifications to it, same goes to oxygen widget theme, usually the major modifications are done on the "easy part" the wallpaper, splashscren and kdm. So if a distro can share a huge portion of the branding value with KDE, how come we can...

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. ...