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Eww
by ac on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @20:23
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I really hate to rain on anyone's parade, but all of these themes are grotesque, IMNSHO.
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Hmm, a Conspiracy?
by Charles Samuels on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @21:07
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Why do #2 and #3 have both kaiman/noatun running with the same song, and the same apps (in the taskbar) ?
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Need a clue
by Simon Perreault on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @21:31
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Let's assume that I'm a "coder with artistic talent", and that I want to create a theme. But this would not be only an "ugly colors + background on top of existing theme" theme, it would be a complete redesign of every widget + sound + mouse cursors + icons + fonts. Where would I get the information on how to design such a theme?
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Not bad.
by KDE User on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @23:10
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Despite what others are saying... However, I must say I prefer Vadim's theme the most. Seems more work went into this one than the others but he only got 3rd prize. Anyone know how many total submissions there were?
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is this a joke ?
by hackorama on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @00:01
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No offensse to the winners..but is this a joke or something ?
Such pathetic themes won a contest ? I seriously dont get it. Maybe only
three people participated.Any why it took IBM forever to publish the results ?
something's wrong !
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Well
by sashmitb on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @02:37
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I remember that when this contest was announced it was for KDE 1.x only? Right? If I had know it included 2.x styles/themes, I would have probably submitted something.
Out of the top three, I like vadim's the best for artistic quality, but I don't think I'd ever use it personally.
And props to IBM for supporting this contest :).
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Who's mosfet?
by Anonymous on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @03:46
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Who's him? Where is his theme?
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http://themes.kde.org
by antialias on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @04:30
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I think it is about time that we start themes.kde.org, and I think that we have many people around who would like to maintain it. Themes.org has been down (no uploads) for so long time, and I gave up creating icon themes and kde styles because of that.
We could also have our own theme contest where the best themes would become the part of official KDE releases.
Anyone interested in these ideas?
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Yuck, were those themes
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @07:46
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I would never use those so called winning themes even if IBM gives me $3000 to use it for a month. I just abhor those themes. Now I see how artistic IBM is and their sense of beauty is very ....
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I thought I saw demos of better ones once...
by EHK on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @08:10
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Hey, I thought I saw some pictures of demos of some people's submissions way back when this was started. The guy had new buttons for everything and it all looked very very good. This is why I didn't bother to try. But something happened. Does anyone know why those themes (if you remember them) didn't get anywhere close? I presume they weren't submitted...
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(winners)^2
by friend on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @08:38
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MAN, I wish I would have entered!!! I could have not only won, but pissed all you f*ckers off at the same time!!!
A VERY LARGE CONGRATUATIONS GOES TO TODAYS WINNERS!!!
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Hard to believe
by AB on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @11:06
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Phew. I would like to see those themes that did not win.
How could THEY look ?
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KDE and broken beauty :(
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @14:54
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I like most of you feel bad that KDE has every look and feel modules scattered into different places so that the user have to struggle configuring the look&feel painfully and anybody who wishes to create Theme which might include:
1. colors,
2. style,
3. window decoration
4. fonts,
5. kicker size,
6. widget sizes (not yet implemented)
6. and other look&feel configurations
KDE must include all look and feel modules into a theme manager then only KDE will get very nice looking themes. But do kde team care for this other than hunting bugs ;)
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Themes.KDE.org
by Evan on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @14:59
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I was wondering if you wanted to collaborate on a themes.kde.org?
I can provide the background technical framework, but I'm not much of an
artist beyond being able to match pallettes and so on.
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Evan
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Geeks != Designers
by Mr Bongo on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @15:11
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Geeks may write good code, but they ain't got a clue about good design...
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only wise asses around...
by sUpeRGR@sS on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @15:25
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listen to yourselfs for a moument guys.... everybody is complaying (including me) that he didn't contribute, but this was exacly the reason why the quality of the themes was not so good.
So stop accusing IBM that they don't have any taste - they just didn't have too many themes they could choose from.
are you not happy that such big (rich) company as IBM supports Linux and OS community? In not best times recently for us.. (read newsforge.net - all goes down).
If we want to keep IBM supporting linux we must act! - the lesson for the next time.
Big thx to IBM for all it does to Linux and big thx to guys who contributed!
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Oh...my...God...
by dingodonkey on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @16:05
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I have never made a KDE theme before, but I could easily have outdone those ugly things... I wish I could be more polite about it, but they are just pitiful.
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Not so good.
by okay on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @23:25
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I'm a new user to Linux/KDE.
Linux/KDE has attracted me by its stability as well as its excellent interface.
I'm now using KDE 2.1.1 and i think any theme i've used on KDE is better than
the ones mentioned in the article...
Why have they won the contest with so poor design and look-feal?
It's a puzzle...
Look at kde.themes.org,where there are so many splendid themes with pretty icon
and beautiful background.
Maybe excellent theme designers have no time to participate such an contest!
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Yes, they are ...
by loco on Monday 17/Sep/2001, @07:16
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Judges are obviously ... BLIND, grrr ...;-)
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Disappointing... very disappointing !
by StonedBones on Monday 17/Sep/2001, @08:34
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What is this, some sick joke ? I mean, hey, the second place has a nice background, and the third place has three new icons in the title bar but the rest is just some color changes ! How lame ! $3000 for the winning theme is simply absurd !
Just look at the Acqua theme for some fine example of what one can do with his KDE desktop... combine it with an IceWM titlebar with Aqua-like buttons and you've got a desktop that makes Windows users wish MS had such eye-candy.
I expected someone would go ahead and write their own KStyle, but this contest is really disappointing... it's a laugh !
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Horrible Themes!
by L-Wave on Monday 17/Sep/2001, @09:36
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These themes are horrible! If this is the future of graphical environments, I'll stick with console.
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Calm down
by Spark on Monday 17/Sep/2001, @09:41
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When I first though those shots, I really expected something different. Sure. But I don't think that the price is "indeserved". :) Simply because those prices are DONATIONS. That means, that they it should be used to support open source organizations. That's a good thing, isn't it?
Thank you IBM!
Too bad that there isn't any creative new theme, but who cares? Liquid is all you need for fancy stuff. ;)
I still think a "non-fancy" style is missing (the KDE default looks too much like "plastique" and not very good), but I'm perfectly happy with Liquid.
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Not Impressed
by puelly on Monday 17/Sep/2001, @13:31
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I must commend the guys that took part in this competition but I am sorry to say that they are not up to par. I was fired u and ready to install these winning themes but after seeing screenshots, I was influenced otherwise. Maybe is because they are sytle themes as opposed to widget themes. The kde community has, in my opinion, preferred the widget themes. I do agree with the guys that are proposing a 'themes.kde.org' The prolonged "update" period of themes.org is hampering the creativity of many of our KDE theme artists.
Where do I sign up for such a undertaking?
My 2 cents.
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Thank God I've Got Mac OS X!
by Indigo on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @00:30
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If this is was themes are like in Linux/KDE, i'm really thankful to have my beautiufl Mac OS X to go back to!
Whats up with those themes? Their look horible! Where's the individuality? The most the themes do is change some colors. Part of the blame goes to the KDE project itself for not having a theming architecture that can support revolutionary new themes and UI ideas.
http://www.apple.com/macosx
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pug-ugly themes
by timewasterX on Tuesday 30/Oct/2001, @05:23
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those judges need their eyes tested.
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