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Tackat And Everaldo Talk About KDE Art
uninet writes "Every one sees them all the time and would probably miss them if they didn't exist. What are they? Icons! Torsten Rahn and Everaldo Coelho, the predominant icon duo in the KDE artist world, and creators of virtually all of the icons you see in KDE, spent some time discussing art issues with me in an interview you can find here. This is definately an interesting chance to get a better aquainted with the people that make KDE look the way it does."
Everaldo Coelho: By the way, for me, KDE-Look is a big basket of ideas and there is lots of good stuff there.
Yep, most definatley. KDE was once chastized for not having many options open for people who did not prefer the hicolor/locolor icons. There were really not that many icon sets available for kde before KDE-look opened. But now, if you go to the icons section of kde-look, there are a LOT of them. KDE-look attracted quite a few of the artistic type, especially with other sites having trouble (especially the whole themes.org version 2 fiasco.) This has really made kde's customizability shine.
btw, I'm not sure why this article got delegated to the developers section of slashdot... it has nothing to do with art.
> KDE 3.0's graphics were just horrid.
I'm not sure what you mean. KDE 3.0's graphics by default look pretty much like KDE 2.x. It was released before either things like Keramik or crystal-SVG were ready for inclusion into KDE.
KDE 3.1, however, will have the new looks.
> Get with it guys.
Well, pretty much the rest of the world is headed towards OSX-ish graphics. WindowsXP went there. Most OSX-ish related icons on kde-look are highly popular. It's just the new modern look.
I also think a point has to be made that these are original works of art. They aren't knockoffs, but derive insipiration from other previous works.
Anyways, if you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to use whatever is default. In fact, it's a option to use "Classic" themese in kpersonalizer, which is run the first time KDE is run. All it takes is one mouse/keystroke.