Oxygen Commit-digest write up

[Danny Allen]

Hi Roger,
That's great!
Any content you can get right now would be useful (haven't heard from anyone else yet!)

I'll be working on the editor interface of Enzyme next to hopefully solve this issue.

Danny


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Pixley" <skreech2 at gmail.com>
To: "digest" <digest at kde.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 22 December, 2010 5:11:25 AM
Subject: Oxygen Commit-digest write up


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. 

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
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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