An Alternative Look for KDE

An anonymous reader writes: "I'm a huge OS X/Gnome fan, but still highly respect the KDE project. I still try and keep up with it's developments and recently came across this posting on KDELook which proposed a totally new GUI design for KDE, which I think could be quite easily adopted in other environments as well. A rolling Slashdot discussion I think would help keep the open-source innovation going. Thoughts?" Update: 11/27 20:12 GMT by T : Amended to give credit where due, which in this case is to the anonymous submitter :)

Comments

ARRRRGH

[devphil]

Since when does copying the XP rounded-edges candy-colored-icons count as "totally new GUI design"?

Please, if people what to copy the XP look-and-squeal, then we can (and should, and do) have particular themes to do exactly that. But this doesn't strike me as innovation.

Making the not-kicker-thingy expand as needed is an interesting tweak. But the rest is just more #*!% copying.

(I wonder what a desktop that actually looked like a desktop would do for ease of use? Hmmm. Have to give that some thought.)

I'm going to gag

[aminorex]

I'm so expletive sick of this radioactive candy
dots design attack on my senses that I want to
go postal. First OSeX, then WinXPuke. Fer the
love of God, Montressor! Not KDE too!

I'm not saying "back to twm". I just don't want
the computer to get in my way. I want to be served,
not have my senses spammed.