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Sorry, I dont like the new look
by Stefan on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @03:35

I don't like the new look, here's why:

Details
- too big blue colored boxes (waste space, add no usability)
- sans serif fonts (dont like them, they look cheap)
- too much line spacing (space-wasting)
- graphics too light, no distinctive coloring

General
- cheap look --> not well-designed
- layout wastes screen space --> bad on small displays
- link boxes: too large --> irritating, need more time to find stuff

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Re: Sorry, I dont like the new look
by Wilke on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @05:53

I don't completely like the new look either. It's a good start, but I think it can easily be made a bit better.

The 'clean' design is great, but I think it has been overdone a bit. I especially like the new K Desktop Environment logo on the current page; the light blue look is good, the font is very well chosen. On the other hand, the screenshot mentioned above looks a bit too 'cluttered', but has some very cool elements.

For example, I think it would look better if the 'gray' menu backgrounds where changed into the light blueish color as shown in the screenshot above.

Of course, where would the Open Source community be if everyone one just said 'I want it this way', and then sat on their ass and waited until someone fixed it...so, I deployed my 1337 Gimp-skills *cough*, and made up some quick&dirty screenshots to show what I mean....I combined some elements of both 'themes'.

Shot 1: nothing changed, only the menu now has a lightblue background. Looks a lot better IMHO. Maybe the blue should be even lighter then shown here.

http://www.havinga.nu/kde-lightblue-menu-bg.png

Shot 2: I think the font in the 'other' theme's menu looks a lot better (maybe that's just my browser messing up though). Also, the blue bars are a bit smaller, maybe some of the 'eye candy' fits in as well...you get the idea. This is a real quick mockup, you can see that the bars are not equally big etc., but it's just to give a quick impression of what it could look like.

http://www.havinga.nu/kde-mixed-styles.png

Any comments on this?

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Re: Sorry, I dont like the new look
by Wilke on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @05:56

Oops, the 'other theme' I'm referring to is actually below this message, not above. But you get the idea :)

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Re: Sorry, I dont like the new look
by Guenter Schwann on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @07:40

I really like second one.

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Re: Sorry, I dont like the new look
by David Walser on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @08:13

The second screenshot looks fantastic.

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Re: Sorry, I dont like the new look
by anonymous on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @10:34

Very nice. I hope your changes are incorporated.

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Re: Sorry, I dont like the new look
by Sparky on Sunday 02/Mar/2003, @15:31

The second picture is light years ahead of the current design .. that is how agonising it is to design websites .. just a few small changes can make a world of difference.

Please incorporate these changes.

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