kde improvments

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 18:22, 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.

You seems to a fan of everything rounded. What's so good about it?

> 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!

I wonder how much resources that movie preview eats...

> I'd like some comments, a little hestitant to post it on bugs.kde.org,
> since I allways get voted down there! :/
> 
> A beautiful first-impression is very important. If I knew nothing about
> the two, I'd like gnome 2.12's default look better than the kde's atm.
> This has changed due to gnome doing eyecandy improvements over the past
> releases!
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vda
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