Re: Fwd: Re: Debian Desktop... but which Debian on my Desktop... now?!

"Christoffer Sawicki" <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:48:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.debian
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Looks really good to me. Fonts are perfect, colours are bright and clean
> and the windeco (knifty, or what was it called?) and icons (nuvola) fit
> very well with any existing crystal-based icons/images/splashscreens and
> still give it a very distinct look and feel...

You managed to catch it all. I'll probably do some custom splashscreens too.

> One thing I personally don't like, though one might argue that it makes for
> a cleaner look, is the absence of (visible) handles for the various parts
> that make up kicker - the little things that enable you to move them
> around.

Hmm. Yer, I fixed that.

> Some things I'd change as well are
> - adding a Virtual Desktop Pager (with only two VDs), since it looks quite
> cool in KDE 3.3.... oh and for the added functionality ;)

I believe virtual desktops are confusing at start for most users.

> - move the show-desktop icon right next to the K-Menu icon

Why? I've positioned them that way to have some balance in their sizes.

> - add the date to the clock and make the font for the time a bit
> bigger/bold (date would be quite a bit smaller than time is now)

I don't see why the date has to be shown all the time.
After all, it does only change once a day.

*/ Christoffer Sawicki <[email protected]>