Mandag den 1. marts 2010 18:56:46 skrev Will Stephenson:
I had an interesting conversation with the Oxygen team at Tokamak4 here last week. They are the guys who did the openSUSE Air branding for 11.2 as part of the upstream branding collaboration started by KDE.
I was asking them whether they'd like to do the 11.3 branding again and the answer was 'Just say the word.'
Question is if we want that. Like others I find it problematic that kdm and ksplash are so "out of sync" with the dvd installer, grub, bootsplash and gdm - it makes KDE seem foreign and out of place imho - like it was put on openSUSE with duct tape, and isn't the default desktop. It was an interesting experiment, but I'd prefer to use jimmac's work in 11.3 for consistency reasons. That is unless we can have the Oxygen guys do the whole distro consistently from end to end (dvd installer, grub, boot, kdm, ksplash, wallpaper) which I would happily let them do ;-) However I would be more than happy to let the Oxygen guys do a wallpaper for inclusion - though not necessarily as the default.
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.
Yeah. The 11.2 wallpaper looks really crappy (literally) on my klaptop - while it looks really great on my workstation (I'm actually still using it there, and I've never kept the default wallpaper for more than a couple of days before :-) But I've never seen problems with Jimmac's green work, nor the pre-Jimmac green artwork.
So how would you feel if we had a non-green release this time?
I'm all about the green. It may be possible to do something else that'd pretty uniquely identify and distinguish openSUSE from other stuff - but I'd need to see it to believe it. Overall I think the best choice is to use Jimmac and his dark, melancolic, greyish stuff with a faint hint of green. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org