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- eyko, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Dude! I would SO switch from gnome to kde if it starts looking like this ;)
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23The KDE team should stay well ahead of Gnome given the focus on vector rendering. One SVG compared to dozens of different resolution rasters. I also think vector images look nicer than rasters in any case (obviously subjective).
I can't see Gnome going for a big clean up operation any time soon. - niallabrown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Wow, that looks great! Really like the task bar. I love the background also.
- Complexium, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Now that's sexy. So much better than the 'standard' KDE look.
- nunopinheiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Thanks a lot on your kind comments
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I've been a Gnome guy for quite a while now, but I'm definitely looking forward to trying KDE4. And I'm also looking forward to Gnome's response. These screenshots are hot.
- nunopinheiro, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12sorry i think it does not, apart from the blackish widgets, but I'm a black fan ask anybody
- Phocion55, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11It does......in a delusional Vista fanboy kind of way.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I like it actually.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Very nice. KDE has some of the most Kreative guys.
- angers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Great work, looking forward to use KDE4.
- postaldave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9anything to replace the default KDE clock is fine with me. that is by far the most ugly feature that stays in each release.
BTW: i think that new clock is stunning. - niallabrown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9What? because it has some black in it and a little transparency? Have you used vista? It looks nothing like it. It looks much better in my opinion.
- shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11I wonder if it would be possible for Ubuntu to adopt KDE4 instead of GNOME. I always found Kubuntu a little awkward at some things and I just wish that KDE4 was the DE.
- bowe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9What is the purpose of the transparent border? All it seems to do is take up space. On laptops with smaller screens like the macbook, that could get annoying. Although you see some of this same stuff in vista so what do I know.
- iofthestorm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Well, he's kind of saying that Kubuntu isn't as well-maintained as Ubuntu is, and he wishes it was.
- cduquette, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I like the new taskbar mockup. I know it's just a mockup, but I hope the final version looks something like that. It's so slick and pretty. :P
- nunopinheiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6well my general idea on the white border is that it should work much like a glue Between several elements.
so you can put the clock in the bar, remove the task-bar to one side do what you want with every element, providing several degrees of freedom, - trzynascie, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Two pics and no content! Omg, so awesome.
- dmiranda2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6This is great and does not look like vista.
- darkNiGHTS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The taskbar looks nothing like Vista or OSX, what are you talking about?
- ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Wait till we get neutrinos and dark matter.
- amphet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5*drools*
- tmalloy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I think there should be an option to have it there or not, because it does take up an unnecessarily large amount of space.
- shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5/not doing well at it
- nandasunu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4this is a mockup
- u16085, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7I think "GUI's" are at a point where they will always look like vista/osx
- Cipher054, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5better an option to enable/disable the border.
- TehDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nuno, you and the rest of the Oxygen team are doing some great work, keep it up. If you want my input on the transparent border, I think it would be best to be able to choose its diameter in pixels.
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Why do you have to comment on every ***** Linux story with your *****. Are you trying to beat 7of7 record for being the biggest ***** with the lowest negative digg?
Unless you are getting paid to post this kind of ***** day and day out, you are one sad moron. Welcome to my Blocked list. - shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Thank you iofthestorm for not being retarded. Ubuntu gets all the love, yet it has the initial visual appeal of rotting animal parts. And nothing converts consumers more than pretty and free.
- Rossjj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4wow that looks really cool
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Kubuntu 8.04 here i come. unless 7.10 gets a kde 4 final version package.
- Ademan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I personally like the white borders myself, but if they're intended as "glue" (basically a drag target for other elements right?) why not (at least optionally) only show them when an element is being dragged?
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I second the option to remove the border. it looks alright, but I don't really see what the use of it is.
- morphir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3hehe! yup!
And don't forget the fact that _everyone_ gets inspired by by everyone. That is just how humans work. Being inspired from a car, nature, other OS's is ALL ok and legal, and very different from copying. The oxygen style has some elements from the OSX as well, but in the end, it's a unique style. - p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Because we care about the bells and whistles! That's like asking why people like bling bling. We like good looking hardware/software. Why? Because it gives us that tingly feeling inside.
- nandasunu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2the wallpaper is from vlad studio: http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?519
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yeah, you're looking for Kubuntu.
- nunopinheiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2black minimalism that i remade from scratch, the one on bloguer is based on that
- markstory, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2How are images not content? Or would you have prefered 2000 words describing what the new desktops were going to look like? Would that be content or just plain stupid.
- Mejogid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually, Gnome is moving across to Cairo for most rendering and SVG for vector graphics (which is pretty much the 'big clean up' you mention later). The reason they make use of different sized PNGs aswell is to increase clarity and style at smaller sizes. As for looking nicer, that's nonsense - a scaled SVG will look nicer but at the native resolution (which all Gnome PNGs are) they will be identical.
- nunopinheiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2heeee I'm a oxygen artist so......
- wordsofwisedumb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Great minds think alike.
- morphir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2this is not a blog about the kde-applications it self. It's a visionary blog about the kde4 look.
- shavenlunatic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3idiot
- oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The mockups seem to be a modern digg-related disease. In the olden days, only the insiders would see the mockups. There's a bit of an issue now that every Tom, Dick and Harry gets to see the mockups and hence the hype gets ramped up a tad!
- nunopinheiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, but can you run PS3 games on Xbox. Or Linux games in the fridge. (well probably some) :)
- oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1nice looking, except the black horizontal line through the middle of the clock looks very thick and distracting for now..
- geoken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The point of the thick window borders is to make it easy to get the resize handles to show up. For example, when you want to resize a window it's a lot easier to position your mouse over a 15px wide window border than it is to do the same over a 3px wide window border. The point of the transparency is to lessen the visual and actual impact of these large window borders. At least those are the reasons from a theoretical point of view, it's entirely possible that they are included because someone simply likes the way they look.
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