4 Jan
2013
4 Jan
'13
2:03 a.m.
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.
Yes, it is true that grouping UI elements is good, but the lines can be
smaller (or less obvious than a big black line), as in newer themes.
By changing the theme, you can see that the separators are not removed,
but replaced by smaller ones.
Once again, not seeing the separators doesn't mean that the options will
go everywhere in a crazy order :) By searching more on kde-look.org, I found out that
the updated Crystal
SVG from PCLOS MiniMe 2008 was that new version of Crystal SVG. I wonder
why it hasn't been choosed as the default icon theme for the last KDE
3.5.x series.
I found an interesting icon theme that integrates well with TDE with
colorful icons, brighter than those of Oxygen. Of course, it is quite
different of what we are used to, but it worth trying it. I will probably
use it in the next release of my livecd. It looks very nice!
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/KFaenza?content=143890
-Alexandre
The icon theme you liked to is quite nice, in my opinion far superior to
Oxygen. Great find!
Tim