Posted by ruphy at 22:54 on the 3 of March, 2008 — Categories: Generic,KDE,Real life.
Happy birthday David! Happy birthday Eugene!
(that’s just alphabetical order)
For those who don’t know, today it’s the birthday of two of our great fellow artists! David ‘davigno’ Vignoni and Eugene ‘it-s’ Trouneuv. To their health!
(to be sincere I wanted to put here a birthday e-card but then I considered that this would have resulted in being more creepy than what I eventually already am. So, take just the words please ;-) )
For the rest, I’m continuing with the complete graphic revamp of this blog, sorry if it doesn’t look completely shiny now, but I will make it so in the next days. Great inspiration in my mind…
And a flood of articles are coming too… I just didn’t want to post anything until the revamp had finished, and I’m only making an exception to the rule just for this special occasion.
Given that I had to do it for the release-team mailing list[¹] I’m going to link the more complete version of the cursor theme here too.
This is much more complete not yet perfect, but much better. I just noticed the watch has a small glitch when rotating, but it’s a minor thing (which I’m fixing right now). Here you can download the white version, the yellow version and the green version. Yes, this one is for you Sebas. =)
Don’t worry, I will make a proper release with a proper announcement with all the colors linked and all this stuff when it will be the right time… this is meant to be a 5 minutes post, already lost too much time on endless mail (and IRC) discussions in these days.
If you’re interested, Harald ‘apachelogger’ Sitter made a screencast showcasting the cursors in all of their beauty (unlike the pic showing a naked Zack :P).
And here is the original video, of a much greater quality, mp4 format (HE-AAC/H.264). Use youtube only if you really cannot play this, this is so much better. :-)
See you soon!
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¹ They seem to think that a cursor theme might break something, or they have other points which I still haven’t understood… but I don’t want to polemize… anyway, I seem to need to convince them to include the theme in 4.0.
Posted by ruphy at 1:32 on the 22 of December, 2007 — Categories: Generic,KDE.
Although I’m skeptical that all of the problems with the release candidate can be fixed in only one month, a rough first release seems a small price to pay for the significant long-term advantages offered by the transition.
Posted by ruphy at 19:32 on the 23 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.
UPDATE:
I just want to remember to all the commenters that, because the cursors are SVG, keeping the design all the colors can be changed in seconds, with awesome results, and this operation is also automated by the fanthastic perl script done by David Faure just for me. :D
I will ship for sure a yellow theme other than the white one, for accessibility (Olaf made me promise this at aKademy) and maybe also a dark one, for similar purposes. I will make all the other colors (plus nice combinations of them) available on my homepage (currently under maintainance), maybe also some variants to the theme. =)
Hello,
this is a very quick post to show the further improvements I’ve achieved on the Oxygen cursor theme.
Will write a short second post today as there’s something which really annoys me, the cursor will come just later. There’s a bug on planet planet that makes me sometimes flood planetkde…. it’s the second time in 3 posts… Please fix it!!!!!!
I apologize with all the guys which I flooded the reading to.
In this post I’d also like to point out to you about an extremely valuable tool, written by one of my KDE co-hacker and good friend Paolo Capriotti.
Posted by ruphy at 21:42 on the 17 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.
Hello.
With the announcement of the Oxygen Wallpaper Contest in August, we, the Oxygen Team, intended to have the KDE community give the brand new KDE 4 desktop its face – and the response was overwhelming! Artists and KDE enthusiasts submitted around 2000 high quality pictures, most of them being fantastic wallpapers.
The jury, composed of David Vignoni, Nuno Pinheiro, Kenneth Wimer and myself, had a hard time digging through that stack of contributions due to the sheer size and finally pick the ones which will to be shipped as KDE 4.0 wallpapers.
And so, after this long and tedious time of waiting for all of you we’re finally announcing the big winners of this fantastic contest! =)
NOTICE:
Some people in the comments had some worries, and thought it may look suspicious seeing that some of the winning wallpapers are infact being done by some members of the jury. To them I want to answer the following things, which I’ve already answered in a comment replying to Tina:
We voted in a way so that we didn’t know who was the author of a certain wallpaper, the votes were secret, and we couldn’t vote for our wallpaper (the vote was the medium value of the other votes). The credit file was not associated at all with wallpapers.
So nothing to worry about, we’ve studied a voting system, we voted, and we took up the results *always* trying to make them in the most impartial way possible.
That’s exactly because we knew some of our wallpapers were in the competition. =)
Posted by ruphy at 9:04 on the 16 of November, 2007 — Categories: KDE,Oxygen.
Mesdames and Messieurs, time has come to finally unveil the winners of the contest! This is one, the first unveiled, of the winning wallpapers! We reached a number of 15 total winners!
