Linked by Adam S on Tue 25th Mar 2003 00:52 UTC
Knowing that ArkLinux is the offspring of Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer (interview here), a former Red Hat employee and KDE hacker, should make it one of the more interesting and, arguably, credible new Linux distributions to hit the streets in recent seasons. With the rise of Lycoris, Lindows, and Xandros, among others, Ark Linux is certainly a far cry from a surefire success. Let's take a look.
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There is something wrong about KDE-Look.org and Ark Linux that I can't deal with... It's called the Noia icons (that can be seen in the Mission Control window). I can't understand why people everywhere praise that awful thing. However it is one of the best rated icon set in KDE-Look.org.
Is just me or those icons looks like someone with a really bad taste went crazy in Photoshop and the EyeCandy plug-ins? And some people go even further, blending these with the Keramik theme... ARGH!
The people behind Ark could switch those icons with some of those beautiful icons from Everaldo's Crystal set. Or HighColor from default KDE or something else. But it would improve a lot the consistence if they use only one icon set for that.
Also, Keramik is butt-ugly. Too much colors, too big widgets and so on. Maybe they could set Mosfet's High Performance Liquid as default theme for their distro. Liquid is easy on the eyes (regarding colors, widgets, etc.), is beautiful and is entirely coded in C++, which is an advantage in performance when compared to bitmapped themes.
Anyway, that _I_ can do for myself :-)) so I'm going to take a ride with Ark Linux because I liked everything else. Kudos for Bero and fellas.
Regards,
DeadFish Man