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Everaldo and Jimmac On Linux Art and Usability

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

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."

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  1. Art / os by NIK282000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Art / os by Tri0de · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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

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  2. You know what to expect: by irokitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cue replies from Gimp-bashers in 3, 2, 1....


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  3. Linux art varies greatly.. by brxndxn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Windows, the different icons and color schemes don't vary too much. Some programs have stupid icons - but most have fairly neat icons and artwork.

    However, in Linux IMO, it's not the case. Some icons and artwork looks amazing while others look absolutely horrible. After dabbling with linux a few times, I really can't stand how the different schemes of different programs don't seem to fit together too well. In Mandrake 10 (last Linux I've used), there were whole different styles of icons.. like, Open Office had it's own set that were X pixels by Y colors in Z-bit color.. while Random Mandrake Prog had icons A pixels by B colors in C-bit color.

    I am starting to think that I would rather just have an entire OS that didn't use Icons. Instead, it would be only labeled buttons.

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    1. Re:Linux art varies greatly.. by irokitt · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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  4. More about them at by akincisor · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.everaldo.com/

    http://jimmac.musichall.cz/index.php3