KDE 4

Sziasztok! Gondoltam, hogy jo lenne egy osszefoglalo topik a KDE 4-hez, mely nem kis ujdonsag lesz, amikor megjelenik.
A fejlesztes hivatalos web site-ja a http://www.kde.org/ , ahol jelenleg mar elerheto a KDE 4 um. beta verzioja, a KDE 3.80.3 releasa (a KDE 4 elofutara). Itt jojjon egy kis angol szoveg (remelem nem haraxotok meg erte), ahol leirjak, hogy a legnagyobb -vizualis -ujitasa a 4-es verzionak, hogy az Oxygen ikon-keszletre epul / azt hasznalja:

„One of the big visual changes just happened in KDE 4, the transition of kdelibs to the Oxygen Icon set. This transition is still in progress, and it includes a massive icon naming scheme change that affects thousands of files. But, the Oxygen artwork project much is more than just an icon set, it’s a unified way to do artwork for KDE 4. SVG an essential part of Oxygen, so many applications that are now capable of SVG display are also using Oxygen styled artwork. Read on for more…

Please keep in mind that the artwork I am showing today is a work in progress, but shows things that have already made their way into KDE’s SVN as the new default. Oxygen will be the default art scheme throughout KDE 4, but many of the elements can still use some tweaking. If you have constructive feedback on any of the artwork demonstrated today, the Oxygen team would be happy to hear about it in the comments. 🙂

Back on the first of January, I wrote an article showing some SVG widgets making their way into KDE, thanks in part to Qt’s new SVG capabilities. Some of the artwork shown in that article was placeholders that were produced by the Oxygen team. Since then, there have been improvements to much of those graphics, but the really big visual change that just happened is the inclusion of the new Oxygen Iconset into the KDE libraries as the new defaults.

Oxygen is a far reaching project, and extends well beyond icons. They have a sort of unofficial tagline: „a breath of fresh air for your desktop”, which encompasses the look and feel of the whole KDE environment. They are a team of developers and artists that are dedicated to making things look beautiful. And not just shiny effects either, they are ensuring that KDE has a unified, easy to recognize interface. For example, icons that end up in toolbars all have the same shadows below them to give them a consistent look. Colour palettes have been created for the artwork to ensure that icons don’t clash with one another, and yet are still easily recognizable. All of the icon sources are SVG files create using Inkscape (and other SVG capable programs), and having the sources available makes it easier to make simple tweaks to the SVG files.

We also now have an official icon naming scheme for KDE 4. Previous versions of KDE grew the naming scheme organically as KDE evolved, so it was somewhat random in many places. The Oxygen team was responsible for developing parts of this naming scheme, but they did so as part of freedesktop.org so that there is less confusion about icon schemes between Gnome and KDE (and other environments) in the future.

So, rather than just talk about Oxygen, I have some screenshots to show the icons in action.

Below is a screenshot of Dolphin showing Oxygen icons, and a shot of Konqueror (from KDE 3.5.6) showing the same folder. Many of these mimetypes also have previews available for them, when previews are enabled.„

Es akkor kovetkezzen par kep is (ezt tolem mar megszokhattatok):

A KDE 4, ahogy olvastam, `Widget Ready!` lesz, es KWin nevu dolog varazsolhat win kinezetet az azt kedveloknek (ez nem feltetlenul elony).

Az uj, negyes verzio script-keretrendszere a Kross lesz, melyrol itt olvashattok bovebben: http://kross.dipe.org/

A stabilitast pedig a Qt4 keretrendszer biztositja, a vegleges verziot varjuk szeretettel!  🙂

A KDE 4-el kapcsolatos eszreveteleket, velemenyeket ide lehet irni!

Udv: Bepe