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Re: Crystal Icons
by MamiyaOtaru on Wednesday 16/Nov/2005, @01:46

I can't say I've ever seen anyone complain about Crystal. Well, not until I read Oxygen's site complaining about childishness etc. Of course they are going to push their theme, but to me it looks like an end run around Everaldo, who's put in a ton of time making an awesome icon theme for KDE.

I obviously wasn't around for the conference that birthed Oxygen, but I just haven't seen the great outcry for a new theme that a project of such magnitude would seem to imply.

http://www.kde-look.org/poll/index.php?poll=96&PHPSESSID=bdc23c30b2d8950bf964a6e4945879ee
Nuvola certainly wasn't far behind, but it was. Crystal had the lead. Granted, FLOSS is about choice, and plenty of people like Nuvola and will like Oxygen (while others can continue using Crystal), I just don't see why it is being treated as a shoe-in to be the new default, especially when we really haven't seen any of it. All may become clear as time passes ;)

/me adopts a wait and see attitude

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Re: Crystal Icons
by David Vignoni on Wednesday 16/Nov/2005, @03:07

A new theme was needed anyway to take advantage of the new upcoming KDE 4 features. Regarding Crystal it is a nice theme and people like it, but there were many problems with small icons and the original author haven't never done a work of theme mantainence and it took a lot of time before the sources were made available to the community, and anyway as Illustrator files. Oxygen will be released as SVG, so all the sources will be available and the Oxygen team is commited to mantain the theme when released. We know SVG isn't good for small icons, for this reason we will made special version for these small sizes.

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