The year started off bleak. As I was gallivanting through KDE themes at hand, I decided to stick with the Oxygen one. It didn t take long to notice that this old theme, once the default in the KDE 4 era, wasn t looking its best. A slew of little bugs had accumulated, and it was clear... Continue Reading
Following posts on specific work being done on Oxygen, this post is going to try to go beyond the manifest work and look at the bigger picture driving it. The motivation for writing it came when I was listening to a music artist who had completely rebranded himself by appending Frutiger to his name. That... Continue Reading
The last post regarding work on fixing Oxygen was a month and a half ago. With all that s happened in between, it feels like so much more time has actually passed. With this post, I d like to do a sort of mid-term update summing up all of the improvements done so far. These improvements are... Continue Reading
A new version (3.4) of Bouncy Ball has just been released on the KDE Store. You can update through Discover, or by heading over to the store: https://store.kde.org/p/2344070 Previous posts:Bouncy Ball will always bounce backThis week in Bouncy Ball – new features land I’m happy to share that this version now includes support for custom... Continue Reading
Minimalism came in like a wrecking ball somewhere around 2013. It delivered a terminal diagnosis to all but a few prevailing designs at the time. One of them, called Oxygen, had reigned supreme in KDE Plasma. As with many others, its demise was inevitable. Anyone aspiring to demonstrate that they were building something new and... Continue Reading
After some more nights spent with our beloved Bouncy Ball, I m happy to announce that a new version is out on the KDE Store. Last week in Bouncy Ball KDE Store page Prior to getting down and dirty with it, I again had at a look at how the ball was implemented in KDE4... Continue Reading
Bouncy Ball. A proper KDE 4 classic. Many hymns of praise have been sung about this lovable desktop extension. It s a widget that lets you play with a bouncy ball on your desktop. It used to be a catalyst for getting into software development. It s forever going to be a charmer of cats. If source... Continue Reading
It’s been almost 7 years since I made a post titled “First steps in open-source” where I talked about joining KDE a Linux community of kindred spirits working on free and open-source software. Brimming with optimism and still living the more or less relaxed student’s life, I had the drive and the opportunity to... Continue Reading
Disclaimer: This idea is solely my own; it doesn’t reflect the position of the KDE community. It’s posted with the desire to open up discussion. On one mid-July’s day in 2014 Plasma 5.0 was released. The release marked a significant departure in the design department as Plasma moved on from the detailed and skeuomorphic Oxygen... Continue Reading
Every so often there appear some new pics from developer builds of Windows or even leaks such as the recent Windows 11 preview screenshots. More or less every time this happens there are comments from the Linux side that Windows is copying KDE Plasma – a desktop environment that is, granted, among the most similar... Continue Reading