Sorry about this I started getting it last week Tuesday for last week Sunday but it just came in. Going to try and get a writeup from the Solid team for this week<br><br><div><br></div><div>Should we add in something about the new Wallpaper and look for KDE 4.6?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Roger Pixley.<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Hugo Pereira Da Costa</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hugo.pereira@free.fr">hugo.pereira@free.fr</a>></span><br>
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As promised, some lines about oxygen for KDE's commit digest. Since I'm not<br>
100% sure of what's usually written, feel free to edit, comment, and do<br>
whatever you want with it.<br>
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Take care,<br>
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Hugo<br>
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PS: sorry for the delay (got sidetracked).<br>
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Oxygen is at the heart of KDE's look and feel since day one of the 4.0<br>
version, for icons, sounds, application's appearance (widget style) and window<br>
decoration. The widget style and window decoration notably have evolved a lot<br>
since the beginning, their design becoming more polished, professional and<br>
attractive, and more features being added, such as support for window<br>
grouping, smooth animations for practically every interaction between the user<br>
and an application or the possibility to move windows from any of its empty<br>
area. They also have become more configurable, while keeping a simple interface<br>
to the user and a satisfying set of default settings.<br>
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Since KDE 4.5, the style and decoration have become rather stable both design-<br>
wise and feature-wise, judging notably from the small number of bug reports<br>
related to either of these two components. So we decided to move one step<br>
further and develop an official KDE port of the oxygen style to the other widely<br>
used widget toolkit: gtk. It is named oxygen-gtk, is hosted in the brand new<br>
KDE git repository, and originates from one of active developer of the QT<br>
version of the style (me!).<br>
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This project aims to provide users with seamless integration of a large number<br>
of non-KDE applications into KDE, such as Gimp, Inkscape, and even Firefox.<br>
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The very first version of this new theme has been released few weeks ago and<br>
reactions so far have been very positive. We expect distributions to start<br>
packaging the code after the first bug-fixing cycle is finished.<br>
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There is a lot of activity going on to fix bugs present in this first release<br>
and reported by users, and to add more features so that both versions of the<br>
style (QT/KDE and GTK) ultimately match perfectly. This results in tenth of<br>
changes pushed to the repository daily. Already today, this project is likely<br>
the best matching GTK port of the KDE's Oxygen widget style. Being developed<br>
(and hosted) by the KDE community guaranties high quality of the code, long<br>
term support as well as fast response to user's demands. Oh, and its a lot of<br>
fun to code into !<br>
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