On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:42:42 -0600 "Timothy Pearson" kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
It's not such a big problem! It's getting ridiculous! I think I'll stop talking about it right here!
-Alexandre
I have no problem considering new ideas, however any new themes should be well thought out with the project goals in mind. Oxygen immediately fails the usability/accessibility test, with the muddy Oxygen icon and widget styles both causing significant regressions in UI element differentiation (some would argue that this is just the "modern look", but I say that this sacrifices usability/accessibility (something objective) for look+feel (something subjective).
The other icon theme that Alexandre linked to does not immediately fail the usability test, so it should be evaluated on other aspects such as how well TDE can utilise its various icons, completeness, the overall level of polish from an artistic perspective, etc.
Tim
Plus, wasn't doing the whole TDE thing the reason - look, feel, workability and intuitiveness of kde 3.x - to get back to that in the first place? If all this 'new', 'modern' stuff was som much needed/wanted, then everyone would simply stick with a distro that *uses* all those 'new' and 'modern' things.
JB