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Nice icon theme, but...
by ltmon on Tuesday 15/Nov/2005, @17:33

I was really hoping to get more details about the other cool things about Oxygen that they have hinted at in the past.

For example, dynamic lighting effects on all icons causing a consistent "light source" to be present on the desktop. Also how are animated icons going to be used?

That said I really do like the consistent, thought-out and methodical approach taken, rather than the normal "Here's a whole lot of pretty pictures" icon design.

L.

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Re: Nice icon theme, but...
by furanku on Wednesday 16/Nov/2005, @01:30

I agree on that.

After also plasma and appeal promised a "whole new desktop experience" I'ld expect something more exciting then just "new pretty pictures". It would be nice to see some of the mentioned effects like the animation and dynamic lightning effects in work, because these are to me the really new features.

For that reason I don't like the static shadow under the "actions" icon, because when lightning is used as a visual aid to tell the user what is going on, the shadows should of course follow that scheme. One could for example give the user the impression of having an icon lifted above the desktop for a drag'n'drop action and a folder opening to signal that it's selected as a possible drop target.

Well, maybe I'm a bit to impatient, but the oxygen, appeal and plasma announcments set my expectations pretty high!

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Re: Nice icon theme, but...
by pinheiro on Wednesday 16/Nov/2005, @02:44

Well that part is still under development and we dont have anything to show just yet on that department, in some time i espect to have somthing to show, this is one of the parts in oxygen were we are going to need the most feedback couse its new, and we dont want to over do it.

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Re: Nice icon theme, but...
by furanku on Wednesday 16/Nov/2005, @03:46

OK!

Thanks for the answer, I'm looking foreward to see the first results :)

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