On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:08, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> From: Torsten Rahn
>
> > On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:28, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > > why not make [Keramik] the default for KDE 3.1?
> > Personally I would be very much in favour of such a decision.
> I like it too, but I use it with the Crystal icons - I suspect most of its
> supporters do. I've just set my desktop to Keramik + Hicolor icons, and the
> effect is a little jarring.

I agree that HiColor doesn't deliver an ideal combination with Keramik.
I also think that we should have something new/more polished for KDE 3.1 for 
an iconset. Currently there are some things that I don't really like about 
Crystal when it comes to choosing it as a default (too flashy, too cute (the 
red hearts come to my mind)), not very colour-neutral (mimetype icon-papers 
should be rather grey or beige).
On the other hand it might be a good choice to just use Crystal as a new start 
and improve it (read: make it more subtil and less offensive flashy). I think 
I'll discuss with some people (developers and users) about these issues 
during LinuxTag. Hopefully some KDE artists will be there, too.  
Right now I think that _if_ we choose Keramik as a new default then choosing 
huge parts (or all of it) of Crystal as a starting point would be a good 
choice. 
If we choose the current versions of Crystal and Keramik to be the starting 
point for KDE 3.1 then we should commit them really soon to CVS to get most 
bugs and problems fixed in there (I'd propose to do this not later than 
within the next two weeks).

Before Crystal would be committed to kdelibs it would have to be relicensed 
under the LGPL (right now it's GPL).

Of course Everaldo, Qwertz, Malte and Frederik have to decide whether they 
would like to see their stuff as the new default. But I hope that we can 
convince them if most people support the idea.

Greetings,
Tackat


> I know I would be happy with crystal icons being the default, but I think
> Torsten expressed doubts about this earlier...?
>
> Cheers, Simon

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