Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (246 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 March 2010 19:20:59 Markus wrote:
> Am Montag 01 März 2010 18:56:46 schrieb Will Stephenson:
> > The Oxygen guys pointed out to me that of all the primary
> > colours, green is the one that LCD monitors have the hardest time
> > representing accurately.  If you look at any monitor gamut diagram, it's
> > always green that is weakest.  The result is that greenish designs look
> > great on the high end external monitors favoured by designers, digital
> > photographers and gadget freaks like me, and look like many other things
> > that are not great on lesser displays, which includes the majority of
> > laptop displays.  Other colours display much more reliably.
> >
> > So how would you feel if we had a non-green release this time?
>
> I use a cheap laptop and have no problems with green.
>
> The important question however is:
> Will it match the rest of openSUSE?
>
> Personally, I think 11.2 was a bad release from a consistence point of
> view. While KDE Plasma is the default desktop, it's obvious that the GNOME
> team decides on the artwork for everything else:
> Grub
> Boot Splash
> Open Office splash (even with KDE integration)
> GIMP splash

This was actually because we didn't start early enough with the branding work 
and wanted to 'try out' how well working with upstream worked.  For 11.3 we 
can have all of these items KDE-branded.

> So now the result on 11.2 is that Boot Splash and KSplash look completely
> different. It doesn't even have the same shades of green. Boot Splash has a
> pattern that looks like a twine, KSplash has circles. Etc.
> To make matters worse, KDM's background image is brurry, while the "same"
> KSlash image is not.
>
> So if 11.3 gets a non-greenish theme, will it result in an even bigger
> departure from the rest?
> I'd like to see a theme that's consistent across the board for all 11.3
> components, the color doesn't really matter to me (as long as it's not blue
> -- everybody uses blue: Windows 7, Mac OS X, Kubuntu, Mandriva,...).

Let's kick the idea around a bit here, then we can go out to the rest of 
openSUSE with what we come up with.

Will

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