Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2016 schrieb Thomas Maus: > Conversative stance and traditions not withstanding, TDE might profit from some > visual improvements, IMHO. Nothing fundamental, just some low-hanging fruits. > > Perhaps worth considering: The icon sets from "http://www.ravefinity.com/". > They claim to do only Open-Source work, so this should be feasible -- either > for direct inclusion, or as a theme source. > The "vibrantly simple" icon set works very well vor me, for example. > > Over the years I've collected a lot of Xcursor icon sets for various purposes > and reasons: > * color variants of classic sets, better harmonizing with my colorscheme(s) > ** Oxygen -- wide spectrum of colors, some slightly textured > ** DMZ -- small spectrum of colors > ** Komix -- wide color spectrum, somewhat flippant, but excellent in > combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set, and quite usable > ** Popsicle -- wide color spectrum, quite flippant, but excellent in > combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set > * dynamic/pulsating cursors, easier to locate (helpful accessibility feature > for some people) > ** e.g. "flame" rotating pseudo-3D object, but not to fidgety > ** "GreenLight"-series, slowly pulsating glow, in the actual color of the > cursor (not necessarily green ;-) > ** "Pulse-Glass"-series, slowly pulsating glow > ** "bCircle" and "Tanga" -- very unusual, but interesting design, with very > strong visual cues maybe helpful in terms of accessibility > > I attach a few (static) screenshots of the cursors -- if there is interest for > some of them, I can dig into the license issues ... > > > Some of the icon sets have problems, e.g. > * TDE-LoColor -- does this actually has still an use-case? your are not aiming > at car dashboard display, aren't you? it is very low-res, too. > * iKons -- IMHO nice, but quite incomplete? > * Tango -- only apps icons!? > > You might ask "so what?". > Well, they might scare off some users, before they find the more pleasing > themes. > > For discussion: What about having a kind of "tag mechanism" for artwork? > We could then tag artwork as "colorful", "dark theme", "light theme", > "monochromatic", "accesibility optimzed", "nostalgia", "kids", "modern", > "conversative", "flippant", etc. (multiple tags can be applied to an artwork!). > The user might set preferences in the control-center, which limit the artwork > actually presented for selection -- this would be innovative, improve the > harmony of the resulting setup, reduce the clutter in the selection lists and > would enable a harmonic co-existence of old and new visual styles, without > need to drop legacy artwork. > > > Finally, about the TDE/Trinity logos, which are still very KDE-ish: > > If that is wanted -- OK. > > If more visual distance would be welcomed, have a view at: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion > Would some simple, color-ramped (to stay clear of well-established meanings) > Triquetra or Triskelion be of interest? I can draft those on positive > feedback. > > Best regards, > > ThoMaus I'd like it very much. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.