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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."
that's why the console rocks.
** Mac users please ignore as you might consider this a bash/insult/flame **
Why is it that most of the skins/themes that I find on sites like www.kde-look.org all try to emulate MacOS ?
I understand that a lot of people like and enjoy cutesy and "fluffy" in their icon sets and skins, but for crying out loud those people are our girlfriends and/or Wives. We know that they only play Sims or Lemmings, and they looove clicking on everything they get in their emails.
MS catered to these types with the default look of XP, big blue & fluffy. Please name me one true geek who didn't turn that crap of the first time that they saw it.
We all know that MS is always chasing Apple's tail when it comes to innovative design choices.
I am very glad that Linux gives us the choice of using whatever theme/icon-pack that we choose.
What ever happened to all those unemployed ergonomic specialists after the dot.crash ?
Why can't some study be done to determine how tedious all that cutesy stuff is and concentrate on function and less on form?
Take Windows 2000 for example. It wasn't ugly, it was functional and worked.
I have tried all the themes that I could find at kde-look that looked halfway utilitarian, hell I even tried the Redmond Theme, (but for some reason it didn't quite work right. Allergic reaction I think.)
This all brings me back to the start. One of my biggest complaints about Linux is the lack of GOOD choices. No CEO will ever be impressed with icons and button that are 2cmx2cm in size and use all 16bits of colour. Lets all try standard toolbars & buttons templates. We all hated the icons from Win3.11 but they did have 1 thing going for them; They were simple and unobtrusive.
ok, I think I feel better now.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
Label me as Troll if you will. Slashdot is way behind OSNews.
This guy is way out there