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KDE 3.0 Screenshots

Posted by timothy on from the need-wackier-screenies dept.

Lawrence Teo writes: "The screenshots of the upcoming KDE 3.x are out! More treats for you screenshot-loving people and I-need-my-desktop-to-look-perfect types. :-)" Frankly, they look a lot like ... previous KDE desktops :) That by itself says a lot about how mature KDE has become.

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  1. Bad screenshots for showing anti-aliasing by jmv · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Actually, I understand that one of the most important difference between KDE 2 and KDE 3 is anti-aliasing. Unfortunatly, they only have JPEG screenshots, so it's almost impossible to notice the anti-aliasing because of how JPEG works. JPEG encodes pictures in the frequency (DCT) domain, so it has a normal tendency to slightly blur (low-pass) the image (which is OK in most circumstances), which makes is also roughly what the anti-aliasing does.

    However, PNG (or GIF, but if you don't mind the patent issues) would have been a good alternative, as it doesn't have that low-pass effect since it just works by quantizing values (colormap) before a lossless compression (which is the patented part in GIF). Anyone have GIF or PNG screenshots?

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    1. Re:Bad screenshots for showing anti-aliasing by jmv · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Seems like I was wrong about KDE 2 not having anti-aliasing, but my point remains: I think it's bad to make screenshots as JPEG. JPEG is better than GIF/PNG for pictures, but when you want to keep sharp (to the picel) edges and don't have that many colors (compared to a "continuous" image), GIF/PNG are usually better.

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    2. Re:Bad screenshots for showing anti-aliasing by jmv · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Bad screenshots for showing anti-aliasing (Score:5, Offtopic)

      I think some code in Slash needs a couple changes. This is getting ridiculous(I know it's logical given how the system works, but the result is really stupid). Next thing we'll see: "(Score:-1, Insightful)"

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    3. Re:Bad screenshots for showing anti-aliasing by Bodero · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      This happens when someone moderated his comment Offtopic, then posted to the discussion, revoking his scored moderation. The comment remains there, however. So, theoretically, a Score: -1, Insightful would be possible. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to fix this issue, I mean Slash already stores the type of moderations done to the comment, so when reducing 1 from the score, it could just pick one of the other categories that was used in moderation.

  2. Mirrors, anyone? by Hal-9001 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Surprise surprise, we've /.ed them...

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