On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:17 PM, C
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 22:57, Malte Gell wrote:
do we really need to copy every look and feel from MS Windows!? I find the new sys tray icons so damn ugly.... I want those colorful icons back! And it really looks silly when the new icons get mixed with icons that are not aware of the new look.
This has been discussed to death on the main openSUSE mailing list... One person's ugly tray icons are another's nice tray icons. I happen to like the grey icons.
It was a conscious decision by the KDE devs... monochrome icons represent KDE system apps, color are 3rd party.
You can install the color icons from KDE-Look.org See: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+Plasma+%28%3E%3D4.5%29+System+Tr...
To say that it has been "discussed" is, IMO, being a bit disingenuous.
From *my* perspective, that conversation has been rather one-sided, with typically three responses:
a) this is the first I've heard of that b) everyone we asked likes the white icons c) changing it hard (ie, "remove this file and that file and change these other files over here by hand, and oh by the way as soon as the package gets updated you get to do it all again") This topic came up *months* ago. Even if (a) were true, that doesn't somehow make the preference for more colorful icons any less valid. It's entirely possible (even probable! I have no reason to doubt the word of those that say that it _was_ discussed!) that, when the topic first came up way deep in the early development process, the devs turned to each other and they decided that white icons were better than colorful ones. Even so, *that* doesn't invalidate people's preferences for the contrary. I would really like to see an installable (packaged!) theme for both white and colorful icons, and let the users choose. The fact that the topic *does* keep coming up is, in my opinion, evidence enough that people are going to want the choice. Before openSUSE 11.4 ships, preferably. Otherwise, people are going to feel that choices contrary to their preferences have been made for them and many won't find a reasonable means of recourse. To be perfectly clear - I have no intent on being insulting (and if I have been, it has been by accident!). I know how hard it is to try to please everybody - but this *does* seem to be one of the most contentious issues of KDE 4.5 and 4.6, and I humbly request that the *option* for colorful icons be made available in an easy-to-install form (and by this I mean fully packaged RPMs in the KDE repository). -- Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org