On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 03 January 2013 19:42:46 Timothy Pearson wrote:
The people who haven't used TDE will think that
it is always the same old project as KDE3. It just looks too old
and of
course, the more actual Oxygen icon theme will go this way one day
or
another, but as of now, I think that it would be a good idea for
TDE to
use Oxygen or another icon theme, at least this updated version of Crystal SVG.
It seems to me to be a pity the way things are changed purely because
they
are "old". For everyone who is scared off TDE because it looks too
like
KDE3, I would venture that there will be at least 2 who will heave a
sigh of
relief that _someone_ doesn't think that things should be changed
purely to
look "modern". If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Lisi
+1 Jonesy
Hi everyone,
One thing I should say is that, of course, the icon theme has nothing to do with the quality of the desktop environment. It doesn't add or remove features to TDE. It might be my personal tastes, but when I boot in a live CD from 2005, I see that things are now made in a more modern way. Sometimes, it is more simple to do X thing and sometimes it is the same old thing, but it doesn't looks like it is from 10 or 15 years ago.
Now, in general UI themes, there is less borders and separators lines everywhere than back in the days of KDE 3.5.x. Compare a theme like QtCurve or like Oxygen to an older theme like Plastik. We don't have to use a theme that looks like what it was 12 years ago, back in the Win XP and 2000 era. It should be noted that we are in 2013.
Just my opinion...
-Alexandre
This is just my opinion as well, but I have found that the removal of the separators and borders has made software more difficult to use and less organised, as developers can now just lump UI elements together in a great big jumble with no need to deal with logical grouping. The human eye lalso appears to look for outlines to categorise items; removing the outlines while leaving the same number of items therefore makes locating a specific item (or items which relate to a given item in terms of functionality) more difficult.
I suspect the grouping indicators were removed to save space on small screens, and when developers realised it also removed the difficult interface design task of showing similar UI elements in one particular location, this philosophy was applied to all applications. ;-)
Just my $0.04.
Tim