Oxygen Commit-digest write up

[Roger Pixley]

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


Should we add in something about the new Wallpaper and look for KDE 4.6?

Roger Pixley.
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From: Hugo Pereira Da Costa <hugo.pereira at free.fr>

As promised, some lines about oxygen for KDE's commit digest. Since I'm not
100% sure of what's usually written, feel free to edit, comment, and do
whatever you want with it.

Take care,

Hugo

PS: sorry for the delay (got sidetracked).

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Oxygen is at the heart of KDE's look and feel since day one of the 4.0
version, for icons, sounds, application's appearance (widget style) and
window
decoration. The widget style and window decoration notably have evolved a
lot
since the beginning, their design becoming more polished, professional and
attractive, and more features being added, such as support for window
grouping, smooth animations for practically every interaction between the
user
and an application or the possibility to move windows from any of its empty
area. They also have become more configurable, while keeping a simple
interface
to the user and a satisfying set of default settings.

Since KDE 4.5, the style and decoration have become rather stable both
design-
wise and feature-wise, judging notably from the small number of bug reports
related to either of these two components. So we decided to move one step
further and develop an official KDE port of the oxygen style to the other
widely
used widget toolkit: gtk. It is named oxygen-gtk, is hosted in the brand new
KDE git repository, and originates from one of active developer of the QT
version of the style (me!).

This project aims to provide users with seamless integration of a large
number
of non-KDE applications into KDE, such as Gimp, Inkscape, and even Firefox.

The very first version of this new theme has been released few weeks ago and
reactions so far have been very positive. We expect distributions to start
packaging the code after the first bug-fixing cycle is finished.

There is a lot of activity going on to fix bugs present in this first
release
and reported by users, and to add more features so that both versions of the
style (QT/KDE and GTK) ultimately match perfectly. This results in tenth of
changes pushed to the repository daily. Already today, this project is
likely
the best matching GTK port of the KDE's Oxygen widget style. Being developed
(and hosted) by the KDE community guaranties high quality of the code, long
term support as well as fast response to user's demands. Oh, and its a lot
of
fun to code into !
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