Which styles to keep?

[Torsten Rahn]

On Monday 20 August 2007 01:53:46 Robert Knight wrote:
> Can I make a suggestion.  I have no qualms with making the older
> styles available to those who would like to use them.    However,
> there is the paradox of choice problem for users.  At the moment my
> styles list in Kubuntu has 17 options.  Of those, about half are
> styles which look "1990s" to me, a look which I personally do not
> like.  In order to find those styles which do appeal to me, I have to
> wade through the "ugly" half.   The current tools we provide to the
> user to adjust their desktop's look and feel do not scale well.  With
> that in mind, and assuming they will not be re-written in time for the
> KDE 4 release, a fairly limited out-of-the-box set would probably be a
> good idea.

That describes exactly the problem I had with "normal" people which I have 
seen digging through the style list.

> As a simple step which would probably be easy to do, I think it would
> be helpful to users (and distributors) if we were to 'brand' those
> older styles as say, "Classic" for example and make it easy for the
> distributions to package those styles separately from the more modern
> ones created for KDE 4.  To help users find the styles they are after
> more easily, we could group them accordingly in the style selection
> dialog.

Yes, I also think that this would be a good idea. Note that the package where 
those styles should go, must not be called "kde-artwork" but should be called 
something like "kde(g)oldies". "kdeoldies" could furthermore ship a whole lot 
of old icons and styles so the user can straight dive into the good old days 
of non-flashiness ;-)

Torsten

> Regards,
> Robert.
>
> On 19/08/07, pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:
> > A Sunday 19 August 2007 21:20:43, Boudewijn Rempt escreveu:
> > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 16 August 2007 15:49:46 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > > > > an acute lack of
> > > > > any contrast so it takes real effort to see the state of the
> > > > > widgets properly.
> > > >
> > > > Palette problem. As nuno pinheiro already said, it will NOT be that
> > > > one default with oxygen.
> > >
> > > Possibly -- but if there's away to get a contrasting color for the
> > > insides of a checkbox and and a radio button, that would be nice. And
> > > checkboxes are a bit rounded, so I have a hard time distinguishing them
> > > from radio buttons.
> >
> > i dont have that problem and they need to be in order to be coerent with
> > the look of the style, also there is no real issu has radio butons are
> > usualy used alog radio butons were checkboxes with checkboxes.
> >
> > > Boudewijn
> >
> > --
> >
> > core oxygen icon designer



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