[dot] KDE-Artists.org: Bastian Salmela Interviewed, Kollaboration Success

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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: here-be-dragons
Date: Monday 08/Aug/2005, @16:44

KDE-Artists.org: Bastian Salmela Interviewed, Kollaboration Success
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   KDE-Artists.org [http://www.kde-artists.org] have interviewed KDE's
Konqi artist Bastian Salmela
[http://www.kde-artists.org/main/content/view/56/29/].  Basse talks
about how he got involved in KDE artwork when he updated the model our
maskot Konqi the Dragon.  He also reveals his next project to be Orange
[http://orange.blender.org], the first Open Source animated film. 
Meanwhile the Kollaboration forum for artist/developer communication has
some exciting projects on the go, read on for more.


  I. KOLLABORATIONS TO TAKE NOTE OF

     Kollaborations for KDE 3.5 artwork
[http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,48/expv,0/board,43.0]
has been started. This is a great opportunity to contribute to the
default look and feel of KDE. At a recent IRC meeting it was decided to
improve the colours in the about:konqueror pages of 3.4 and reuse some
of the elements. It was also decided to take the wave element and use it
as a common theme throughout 3.5. At this point we need various versions
of the wave element so as to achieve a better fit with the the interface
as a whole.

     Kontact has started a Kollaboration board, Make Kontact Sexy
[http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,48/expv,0/board,31.0],
for new icons and elements to spice up their corporate look. There will
be an upcoming contest to create a new logo and icon for Kontact.
     Our newest Kollaboration board is for Ept
[http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,48/expv,0/board,47.0],
a new Debian package manager.  Suggestions for application icon welcome.

     The quote of the month is from Andreas Gungl in regards to
Kollaboration "Wow, it's impressive to see the feedback. It seems this
platform is going to become a huge value for KDE art development." 
Several Kollaborations have been completed among them are KTorrent
[http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,27/expv,0/topic,140],
KBoggle
[http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,26/topic,243]
and Kalzium
[http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,26/expv,0/board,18.0].


     Finally our Guides and Tutorials
[http://kde-artists.org/main/content/blogcategory/0/62/] gained an
article explaining where to install your icons to.
 [http://kde-artists.org/main/content/view/54/]