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New Oxygen logout icon
by DanaKil on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @05:27

Hmm, the previous logout icon was much better imho, the new one looks so XP :-/

http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-12-30/moreinfo/752456/#visual

http://danakil.free.fr/linux/logout.png (XP and KDE)

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by Bobby on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @05:40

The colour distinction does make a difference. Before logout, restart and shutdown were all black. One had to read the discription but now it's easier with different colours although I think that logout should have a different colour than shutdown.
I disagree that they look like XP's, they are far more beautiful.

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by hias on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @06:31

I you want to complain about the new logout icon design, the only reason could be because it looks like the one in ubuntu.

I think it looks great and is totally different than the XP logout icon except the color.

BTW is there any change to get another folder icon as option, not default. I'm referring to the one replaced by the current version because people complained it doesn't look like a folder. I use it since months and am addicted to it, in the end its a matter of habit. It would be cool to be able to change it easily because it's part of oxygen, instead of keeping a copy around all the time of KDE4.

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by Jakob Petsovits on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @17:49

> BTW is there any chance to get another folder icon as option, not default.

I'd say that's not very probable, it would likely require a mechanism to override any theme icons, and that's not particularly easy to do and requires a bit intrusive code changes for a very rare edge case wish.

The better way would be to create a derivative theme that just replaces the "folder" icon and otherwise inherits from Oxygen... but I'm not motivated enough to find links on how this works - I'd say take a good icon theme, look at its index.desktop file and adapt that, throw out most of the icons and insert your favorite folder icon there.

With a little luck, you can have your own personal derivative theme without much effort, plus you don't need to wait for some developer with too much time to implement in-theme icon switching.

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by kwilliam on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @10:29

I have to agree with DanaKil. The colors are far to bright; they don't fit in with the other Oxygen icons or the dark Plasma theme at all. I think the artists should ditch the idea that log out, shutdown, restart, etc. should all have the same shape. Or if they don't, at least keep the cool round shape and add the color to the symbols on the buttons, rather than make the whole button colored.

Here's an example of what I mean: http://wmhilton.googlepages.com/my-KDE4-system-log-out2.png

I'm not an artist, so it doesn't look very good, but that's the idea I'd like to see used instead of the square buttons. If this can't be done before KDE 4.0 is tagged today, then maybe for 4.1.

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by jospoortvliet on Saturday 05/Jan/2008, @01:46

Hmmm, I think I kind'a agree with you. I found the logout buttons to be very in-your-face as well... Probably a 4.1 thing, indeed.

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by Max on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @17:03

The sad part is that I have to agree.. :(

C'mon people. Oxygen looks so gorgeous, why stop now at the logout icon?

Remember KDE is supposed to look towards the future, not the past..

-M

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by Askrates on Thursday 03/Jan/2008, @18:59

I have to disagree. I like the new logout icon better. The Oxygen guys are doing a great job.

BUT... It is impossible to please everyone, and taste is very personal

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by nuno pinheiro on Friday 04/Jan/2008, @16:59

Well that was the group of icons people complained most about, this ones are less controversila and still fit the style, in fat they fit beter, one day I will make an all black theme ;)

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Re: New Oxygen logout icon
by DanaKil on Sunday 13/Jan/2008, @15:46

Hourra for an all-black theme :)

Cheers

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