Everaldo and Jimmac On Linux Art and Usability

Eugenia writes "Metin Amiroff of OSNews interviewed the well known artists of KDE and GNOME, Everaldo and Jimmac. They discuss their first steps into Linux, the applicationss they use and why Linux still doesn't have all the professional applications and support they need for their day to day work, their inspiration, the state of the Linux desktop visually and usability-wise, the SVG factor and their future plans for KDE and GNOME."

Comments

Art / os

[NIK282000]

Even though the art in an OS is far from vital, it makes the experience easier. Un like some OS's with bad graphics, its like watching surgery.

Re:Art / os

[Tri0de]

Best quote from the story:
"hardest thing is to create the drawing and this is something that no software can do for you."

Amen

I've got a couple of friends who are with great with computer graphics the way I was with photography: technical mastery but little artistic sensibility; I got Zone system and the Schwiempflug rule (converging fields of focus) down just like my buds have Quark/Photoslop whatever, but - somebody with artistic ability -that's a rarity,a bitch to teach and seldom combined with hacking ability

Re:Linux art varies greatly..

[irokitt]

You bring up a good point, but recognize that Gnome is working on that with their interface policies. Free software tends to take a "make it work first, then make it look good" approach. What the community could really use is a few good artists that volunteer to make some of the ugly projects look good.

One of my beefs is that some applications ship with ugly "basic" interfaces and expect users to look for skins to make it look better. In my mind, it should look good out of the box, and the skins should just make it look better.