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  Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
Graphics and Art Posted by Navindra Umanee on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @12:38
from the mmm-candy dept.
Over the course of development of a project like KDE, a lot of art gets created. Following, purely for your viewing pleasure, are some examples of art that have not yet made it to KDE CVS, for one reason or another. First off, Martin Kerz offered several suggestions for the KDE2 splash screen: startup1, alternative, krassnagel, colouredk. Sreshth Kumar offered yet another. For the default WM style, Mosfet proposed an interesting hybrid a while back but apparently got outvoted (new proposals are in the works). There is obviously a lot more of such art floating around -- if you have more links, feel free to post them in the comments.


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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by David Walser on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @16:14
Hey I like that Mosfet theme, much better than the default KDE2 one.
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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @16:50
Wow! That looks exactly like the GNOME login sequences.

Even the touch of using a sea shore.

Nice touch.
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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by Geter on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @17:23
My vote is for Sreshth Kumar's yet 'another' splash screen. It looks the most professional.
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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by Christien Bunting on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @19:32
How do I create my own splash screen ?? Where can I get other splash screens once kde2.0 final is out ? Thanks Chris, aka bunty on IRC
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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by Zeljko Vukman on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @20:01
I think that the current KDE2 splash screen is
professionally designed, and that is one of the best designed things in KDE2. Anyway, this is a matter of taste, and KDE2 gives possibility to change splash screen if one does not like it.
Helix-Gnome has a nice splash screen, and that
kind of design represents Mexican fiesta, happiness & visual creativity.
KDE2 splash screen simbolize German precision and
technical superiority (which KDE2 compared to Gnome really is).
I would like to see more consistency in KDE2 icon design. KDE2 has some extremly beautiful icons, and some extremly ugly ones (one example for ugly one is default "home" icon). KDE has allways had
that kind of design which I call "streamlined, clean & non-disturbing design", and it should stay with it. KDE2 should not copy Gnome design
and surely not add flowers, birds, clouds & seasides to its visuality.
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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by acc on Tuesday 03/Oct/2000, @22:21
honestly, comparing to GNOME splash screen...
you folks need to learn more photography technique.
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Re: Miscellaneous KDE eyecandy
by Ezz on Wednesday 04/Oct/2000, @09:25
IMHO, KDE borders and Icons *do* need to be upgraded. GNOME gets its distinctive look from it's icons and the window dressings. The actual GTK widgets look, IMO, terrible.

If you start a GNOME app in KDE, you can see this.
However, start a KDE app in GNOME, and you see the crispness of the QT widgets.

What KDE needs, is some work in the artwork department - nice rendered hi-color icons and decent window dressings. This is all that gives GNOME it's unnique look - and all that makes people insist on refering to KDE as a Windows clone.
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The New Style
by Chris Aakre on Wednesday 04/Oct/2000, @23:15
For a look at the new style mosfet and the rest are discussing, point your browsers here
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More icons
by Ante on Friday 06/Oct/2000, @13:32
Some extraKDE icons can be found at:
http://home.uwnet.nl/~vita/linux/index.html
Also there: black & white icons which might make it to KDE later on...
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err... 404 splash screens...
by Sensi Millia on Monday 09/Oct/2000, @07:37
All the screens look the same...
They say something about a 404 :)

Keep up the good work guys...

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what about letting people choose
by Justin Goldberg on Wednesday 11/Oct/2000, @10:51

How about have a default startup splash screen, but someone in the screen options, allow people to choose another one or use one of their graphics?
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