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random quote:
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."

Pete Seeger

Oxygen battery.

The artwork for the battery was initially taken from powermanager, the small application we developed for Kubuntu. KDE4's batteryapplet would need an Oxygen battery. There is one shipped with the icon set, so I sat down, wrestled with inkscape and beat it into shape so it can be used as a theme for the batteryapplet in KDE4's plasma.

Yesterday, Aaron landed a series of larger changes in plasma, making it possible to drag applets onto the panel. I noticed that the battery got stretched out far too much, so I added some hinting taking the aspectratio of the SVG file into account. The result is an Oxygen battery on the panel and on the desktop. For those that prefer the more classic artwork, I've left that in as an option.

The KDE 4 desktop has come to a point where it's well usable, if you can live with some minor kinks. With the arrival of new artwork for krunner and properly themed panel background, the various pieces of plasma are falling into place now. I'm starting to experience the first bits of the real KDE 4 user experience, and I love it. This is going to be a great desktop.

[ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:45:30 +0100 ] permanent link

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