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Hmm, a Conspiracy?
by Charles Samuels on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @21:07

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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Re: Hmm, a Conspiracy?
by Oz on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @21:41

Nah, I'd presume that the screenshots were taken by an IBM person who just switched theme and retook the screenshots.

Though it's more fun to think it's a conspiracy :-)

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Re: Hmm, a Conspiracy?
by Charles Samuels on Saturday 15/Sep/2001, @22:17

So, which judge has the bad taste of using the Kaiman skin loader, and the bad taste of selecting that song? ;)

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Re: Hmm, a Conspiracy?
by Yama on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @01:01

It's definitely kitsch. The song used for the winner - Weird Al's "Alberquerque" if I'm not mistaken - is awesome.

No offence to the theme designers, but it looks like they spent an entire five minutes designing their themes. If I knew the standard would be this low, I would've entered the competition myself. Someone ought to give Mosfet a prize for his Liquid style engine.

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5 minutes?..
by Vadim Plessky on Tuesday 18/Sep/2001, @11:05

5 minutes? Are you joking?
No offense to you, but have you ever looked at kde.themes.org, when it was up and running?
No offence to themes.org team, but I started doing ownj themes when I found that I can't get good enough from kde.themes.org. By the way, I prepeared soewhat 30+ themes, some original, some backports, and they were accessible (ready for download) for about 3 months already. You can check apps.kde.com entry for tarball and and screenshots. About themes' creativity and quality: you could just drop me an email and tell what you don't like in them. :-)
Remember there were special requirements in themes' contest (original design, easy of use, etc.) which prevented me from doing some more exotic design.

Cheers,

Vadim

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Re: Hmm, a Conspiracy?
by David Walser on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @08:03

Bad taste in song selection? I guess "when it comes to songs, IBM ain't got nothin' to do with your selection." :o)

I'd say "when it comes to themes, IBM ain't got nothin' to do with my selection," but that's just me. :o)

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Hardly a conspirousy...
by friend on Sunday 16/Sep/2001, @08:53

Those screenshots were obviously taken from the judges' computers.

The judges very obviously wanted to give you a common setting such that you were not judgeing something like the kia skin, but the actual theme. I don't think the screenshots best show off the themes, but IBM representatives are not miracle workers.

I do hope those themes are added to the kde themes collection

I also hope that everyone here who screamed bloody murder about the themes actual tries them... but only because I hate you.

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