what you can't see is the cool fade in animation. (thanks Zack Rusin, you rock!)
zoom icons are now gone as per the plan. the bugs just kept mounting on them and they were looking dated. not to mention this trumps those annoying (and IMHO ugly) yellow tooltips that would obscure buttons. i'll also be able to get rid of another, now unnecessary, layer in the class hierarchy. this new bit of eye candy should also help give KDE a more distinct (and therefore recognizable) look.
truth be told, i'd love to see these new mouse overs dressed up even more. i'd like kicker to look nicer in general. which is why in KDE4 it will receive a new theme engine (along with cool things like floating panels, the groundwork for which has already been laid). the configuration dialog is way too complex and a lot of that is because the theming is so primitive. witness the tiles settings, and the transparency and background and... making kicker look more modern will hopefully make KDE4 more appealing, but it will also help with the configuration problem.
since i'm no artist, kde-look.org is going to be running a series of contests this spring to get (implementable and usable) concepts to spiff up the look and feel of kicker in KDE4. and speaking of kde-look.org, they are running a very cool SVG background competition. i'm on the judging panel to help select the four pieces of art that will end up in KDE 3.4, so i'm doubly excited.
and as if that weren't enough, there was a beta of Qt4 released today. and boy is Qt Designer a disaster at the moment.
and of course, Christmas is but a few days away. there are a lot of things i don't like about the Christmas season, but there are a lot of things i do. it struck me today that i should pick one of those things that i do like and do it again when the weather warms up. random happiness.
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Perhaps normal tooltips or passive infobox thingys should look like this too. IMHO normal tooltips look quite archaic at the moment.
Given the limitations (laptops) of my hardware, I guess I'll be switching to Gnome. The zooming icons was the only thing that made KDE usable on them. Server, hell, who runs a GUI on a server?
> Given the limitations (laptops) of my hardware, I guess
> I'll be switching to Gnome. The zooming icons was the
> only thing that made KDE usable on them.
erm, i'm not sure what you're refering to exactly. that this will take too much CPU? (if so, have you actually tried it?)
or that the larger targets made it easier to use? if so, i think you'll find that with the zooming icon implementation that was in KDE that was nearly an optical illusion: sure the icons were bigger but you had to position your mouse with as much or greater accuracy (greater when you wanted the icon next to the currently zoomed icon)...
> Server, hell, who runs a GUI on a server?
it's easy enough to turn this effect off in the configuration panel. and again, have you actually tried it?
btw, it's really, really difficult to have a constructive conversation when you post anonymously with no way to reply to you =(
hello
first, sorry for my silly english, I think that the next release of KDE (3.5 or 4) should be very usable and eye-candy, specialy the design of Kmenu, Windows98 has a good one, why not using something like that.this not an insult by using a windows like design. anyway we have two main GUI aqua or windows.
so please try to make a superior product, cause we need just one GUI. I am not speaking about gnome
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