Those of you who regolary follow the KDE commits may have already noticed that Thomas finally committed his code. So, the question comes obivious: why haven’t I made the promised screencasts yet?

And the answer is less obivious: we had some serious problems with the new code of the windeco; Thomas is a great hacker about graphics, one of the best I know, but he’s still an human, and needs some time to debug the problems that may eventually come up. Especially, there’s a nasty bug that right now makes the GUI flashing a bit when resizing (just when using the oxygen windeco)… seems a problem with the painting updates, and the complicated background does the rest.
Fortunately, it’s stuff we are going to fix soon, Thomas is investigating on that right now. If you want to know more technical details, please mail me, or, better, Thomas (be warned, he will write you really technical ones ).

You should also keep clear in mind that we’ve completely rewritten the painting code of the most important elements, while in the meeting, and we got multiple widgets broken by those modifications. So a general screenshot is out of discussion for now.
Some more specific ones can be done… I’ll see as the development continues.

We’re having a meeting on tuesday, and we’ll discuss many things, including style, look and feel of new widgets, arrows, website updates, and many other Oxygen stuff: pretty cool stuff should be going to happen.

Hope I’ll show you something real in the next post (maybe a Plasma screencast… who knows ).
Take care! =)

UPDATE: Forgot to say, as someone reported: the windeco is red (the red color is just temporary, placed there by Thomas as a placeholder) when the window doesn’t use the oxygen style. That’s indeed a great thing, and we will use this feature to have a windeco that looks detached from the window on GTK and other windows where we can’t “merge” the two things into an unique element.

P.S.: I wrote this post at 1:30 AM, after a really tiring day… it will certainly be full of grammatical/spelling errors and such stuff… and the wordpress editor doesn’t help! sorry!