Before we get underway: I'm sorry, we don't have enough headline space to write 'KDE Releases Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces 4.6.0'. Then again, do any non-anal people every refer to it that way? No? I thought so. In any case, there's a new KDE version out with lots of new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
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If you really are, the problem is that many things don't look "right" ... constrast is all over the shop.
Also the task bar items IMO are really hard to read semi-transparent black on a dark background, also the inner glow on the taskbar item's words just looks tacky IMO.
The padding isn't right on the task bar items either.
Edited 2011-01-27 17:26 UTC
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Not sure you noticed that there is a under blur of the fonts in reversed color to ensure there is enough contrast.... in relation to any background not just dark ones, still it may vary depending on your font defaults, KDE as no saying on that...
The padding might need some work, but then again its a detail and it as some technical limitations, not sure its that bad...
The part of the glow being tacky, I have no idea what you are talking about....as I don't know what you mean with "contrast is all over the shop" to much to little? what?
Any way unlike most design platforms in OSS, Oxygen is completely open to any one that wants to help just drop by IRC or send me an email with ideas sketches mocks on how to help the overall design of KDE, Oxygen is a completely volunteer based design platform so all help is welcome.
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Don't bother to ask. He is probably a fanboy of some other DE (or WM, perhaps), jealous that his favorite one can not stand against KDE on technical or aesthetics ground. That kind of troll that does not even try before jump with critics about something he does not know enough about. Was him a bit smart, he would refrain from comment on things without the essential knowledge/experience.
You can not please everyone on aesthetics ground only. Whenever someone publicly condemn something based on what he/she thinks does not "feels right", he should show his own "customized" things on that field. It probably would give us a lot of laugh. Also, what really counts is that KDE can be fully customized with easy to satisfy whoever tries it.
Even though it is not my favorite DE I have to congratulate the KDE team, It is really beautiful out of the box (icons, wallpapers and effects) and some of its applications are the best of the breed of the UI-oriented ones from FOSS-complex.
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Thank you so much, and I'm the frist person to know that it still needs alot of work, It is just that after so much work being done out in the open its a bit demotivating wen some one after glance states the absolute "truth", I should know better and not feed the monster but.... 
O well next KDE will be better, and thats the magic of it.
Member since:2007-12-16
In my mind the widget theme Oxygen sucks. It looks too legacy. The buttons are ugly, background gradient too harsh. I use the only real option for Oxygen, QtCurve.
Plasma theme is OK. It's just Plasma's taskbar's way of drawing the theme sucks. It doesn't allow for any other button shape than the one with a fixed padding around them.
Edited 2011-01-28 06:10 UTC
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As the author of QtCurve, I'm glad you like it.
However, even I have started to use Oxygen (now it has a matching Gtk2 theme). Its in no way perfect (for example, default buttons have no indicator when another widget has focus), but I personally think it is a very beautiful, elegant, and unique theme.
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As the lead designer in Oxygen KDE's design platform, Can I know were do you base your absolute statement???
Note that I'm not saying its perfect its not I know that all to well but... I wonder were do you see that? and in comparison to what?
And is it everything? Is it the icons you don't like? or the wallpaper,,,, maybe its the toolkit? Really I would like to know, Specially I would like to know how come you missed the "IMO" part.