kde improvments

John john_82 at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Dec 18 11:59:31 GMT 2005


Quote

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

I think that's especially true of desktops. Gnome doesn't appeal to me at all!

Regards
John

One thing though. When I reply to a mail on this list I have to fully type 
kde at mail.kde.org in the "reply to:" field. Why doesn't it auto complete as 
the "to:" field and all others do?


On Sunday 18 December 2005 05:48, kitts wrote:
> On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:52 IST, Anders Storsveen wrote:
> > I have taken a screenshot of a regular gnome desktop, just to show how
> > much more beautiful it can become if you just implement a few things..
> > definantly for kde4, but preferably for 3.5.x too.
> >
> > http://huldreveien.generation.no/~wakko/gnome2.jpg
> >
> > Here you see the rubberband selector, that is transparent (without
> > performance penalties at all, completely smooth, while the
> > implementation I have seen on kde-look.org for kde is slow like hxll!
> >
> > Also the selected icons get a nice rounded and anti-aliased selection,
> > with a little space. You also see the selected, but inactive
> > "Filesystem" Icon. The window decorations is also rounded.
> >
> > Also the icons of the movies are previews, which are beautifully done
> > with a movie-film-like effect blended in. I'd LOVE to see stuff like
> > this in kde. Font sizes and color inversion depending on hue is also
> > nice!
>
> Maybe i am missing the point... but i think all of those you describe are
> also a part of KDE.
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