http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6363 <pre>Sorry. Forgot to re-attach the file.______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Martin Walch 2012-05-25T22:34:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6362 <pre>Hello list, there are quite a few jpeg files in KDE, most of them are wallpapers. By optimizing the entropy enconding with jpegtran and by removing thumbnails from exif metadata, they can easily be compressed stronger without losing quality. For example from the kdeartwork-4.8.3 tarball, the file kdeartwork-4.8.3/WeatherWallpapers/JK_Bridge_at_Night/contents/images/1600x1200.jpg has a size of 271474 bytes. With a simple optimization run with jpegtran, the file size can be reduced to 265162 bytes. With progressive mode, this can be even further shrunk to 254764 bytes. Finally removing the exif embedded thumbnail yields a size of 247968 bytes. Applying these optimizations to all images saves several megabytes. One can argue that embedded thumbnails are a good thing because a preview picture can be quickly shown. However, only some jpeg files in kdeartwork contain thumbnails, and they do not really work good together with the preview capabilities of KDE. If KDE does not find suitable embedded thumbnails, it will generate its own thumbnails, caching them in ~/.thumbnails. Once the thumbnails have been cached, all further preview accesses will be quick, no matter if the thumbnail was taken from exif metadata or autogenerated by a thumbnailer. On IRC in #kde-devel, I was advised to propose this optimizations as a step in the normal release procedure. For this purpose, I have written the attached Python script compress-jpg.py. It will probably run on any GNU/Linux and most Unix flavors including Mac OS X. It will probably fail on Windows, as it uses the function os.rename to atomically replace files, which fails on Windows according to the Python documentation. compress-jpg.py makes use of some other programs that must exist to successfully run the script: touch: part of coreutils. If you are using Linux, this is usually installed. file: widely used command, probably installed on most Linux and Unix systems jpegtran: from IJG's implementation or from libjpeg-turbo (probably installed) exif: from libexif (libexif.sourceforge.net), usually in default repositories And of course you need Python, which today can be found in the default installation of most Linux systems. compress-jpg.py should work with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2. (I tested it with Python 2.7.2 and Python 3.2.2.) Its usage is pretty simple: invoke the script in a terminal and pass a file or a directory as argument. If you pass a file, this single file is optimized. If you pass a directory, the directory and all subdirectories are traversed and all jpg files that are found are processed. File format detection is done with the file command, so filename endings do not matter. Only files and directories will be processed (i. e. symlinks will be ignored). If no other arguments are passed to the script, it will try optimization with jpegtran in progressive mode and in non-progressive mode and will use the result with the smaller file. If exif can reduce the file size by removing an embedded thumbnail, it will do so. The timestamps and access permissions of the files will be kept. You can influence this behaviour with several switches: --no-progressive: do not try progressive mode A file that already *is* saved in progressive mode and can not be shrunk in non-progressive mode will stay in progressive mode. --keep-thumbnail: do not try to remove embedded thumbnails from exif metadata If there is no thumbnail or no exif information at all, there will not be any created. --new-timestamp: update timestamps if files are modified I found it useful to shrink my own files while keeping the last "real" change of the content. If you want to have new timestamps, then use this switch. --quiet: suppress almost all text output Without this switch you will get some status information like which file is currently being processed, its old and new size and a spinner when searching for jpeg files, to indicate that the program is still alive. Interrupting the script (e. g. Ctrl-C, or SIGTERM) should be save, i. e. it does not corrupt any files, and it should not leave any garbage. If compress-jpg.py crashes for some reason or it is killed with SIGKILL, there might remain a temporary file (its name begins with "tmp"), which should be manually removed. As I am new to Python, you might encounter a bug. Therefore I suggest making simple sanity checks (like checking for empty files) before committing any changes (maybe you have a tool for easily comparing images? I tried compare from imagemagick some time ago, but did not find out how to simply test for equality) If you find a bug or have a suggestion for improvement, please write me an e- mail, with a subject line preferably starting with [compress-jpg.py]. Regards Martin Walch </pre> Martin Walch 2012-05-25T22:26:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6360 <pre>Hi! I've realised that the default Oxygen icons for text-x-changelog are exactly the same as the text-plain icon. To rectify this, I've taken the text-x-log icon and changed the "log" text to "cha", with repositioning as required. Please find these icons attached to this e-mail; feel free to include them in Oxygen. The standard LGPL-3.0+ licence applies. Yours truly, John Zaitseff </pre> John Zaitseff 2012-05-01T07:00:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6356 <pre>Hi! I've been looking at using the Oxygen icons on my web pages and for GPL applications, such as for Apache's autoindex feature. The icons are very good---I really like them! Well done! However, I noticed that a few icons could be added. If I was a graphics designer, I'd try to do so myself, but I'm not :-( I'd suggest adding the following MIME type icons: application/x-core - Core dumps (just a nicety!) text/x-emacs-lisp - Emacs Lisp source code text/x-fortran - Fortran source code text/x-go - Go source code text/x-scheme - Scheme source code text/x-verilog - Verilog source code (hardware description language) text/x-vhdl - VHDL hardware description language source code text/x-source-generic - For generic source code (similar to text/x-generic except that it looks more like source code) In addition, the following would be useful, I think: book-open - For hierarchical manual pages, current page book-closed - For hierarchical manual pages The old KDE icon sets included these two icons (as well as for application/x-core): http://www.zap.org.au/misc/file-icons/book-open.png http://www.zap.org.au/misc/file-icons/book-closed.png http://www.zap.org.au/misc/file-icons/file-core.png Is there any possibility of designing the above-mentioned list and adding them to the Oxygen repository? Yours truly, John Zaitseff </pre> John Zaitseff 2012-05-01T13:54:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6354 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297218 Bug ID: 297218 Severity: normal Version: unspecified Priority: NOR Assignee: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org Summary: Login and logout sound files have no license Classification: Unclassified OS: other Reporter: neptunia&lt; at &gt;mail.ru Hardware: Other Status: UNCONFIRMED Component: general Product: artwork User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Firefox 2.0; openSUSE; ru-RU) Build Identifier: The files KDE_Logout_new.wav and KDE_Startup_new.wav located in kdeartwork/sounds/ have no license information. This became a reason for a bugreport by SUSE's legal team. Please include the license information into the directory. Reproducible: Always </pre> Ilya Chernykh 2012-04-01T02:43:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6349 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295646 Bug ID: 295646 Severity: critical Version: unspecified Priority: NOR Assignee: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org Summary: NetworkManagement Plasmoid "Kill Connection" and "Show less" icon black shadow problem as well as fonts' white color. Classification: Unclassified OS: Linux Reporter: i&lt; at &gt;marguerite.su Hardware: openSUSE RPMs Status: UNCONFIRMED Component: general Product: artwork Created attachment 69441 --&gt; https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=69441&amp;action=edit NetworkManagement Plasmoid screenshot See the screenshot attached. the icons mentioned in title have abnormal huge ugly black shadow. and fonts in the left panel is not the same color as in the right panel. you can not see anything when open that plasmoid in a white wallpaper. Reproducible: Always </pre> margueritesu 2012-03-10T04:07:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6345 <pre>As discussed in following Thread [1] and on IRC with eshat I propose in the name of the Kubuntu Developer Community that we should use picture [2] instead of [3] for ksplash and kdm, since it disturbs the user less form what he/she want’s to do. Regards Jonathan Kolberg [1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2012-March/005898.html [2]: http://aplg.kollide.net/tmp/snapshot020.png [3]: http://aplg.kollide.net/tmp/snapshot021.png______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Jonathan Raphael Joachim Kolberg 2012-03-08T22:16:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6339 <pre>Hello, (I'm CC'ing the artists team because I'm interested in knowing their opinion as well.) One of the features that we are still missing in KDE Telepathy is the possibility to set a custom icon to an account, useful to distinguish two accounts using the same protocol. Kopete had this interesting feature that lets you pick any colour for the icon, and the "standard" icon for the protocol and then is rendered using that colour as an effect. This is not possible for telepathy, because we don't have an icon-color property (perhaps we could try to have it directly in telepathy specs, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea and if they would accept it upstream), the only thing that we can do at the moment is just set a custom icon. We could just let the user choose any icon, but in my opinion this is a little too much for the standard user because he probably don't want to be able to choose any icon, but wants just to be able to distinguish the accounts. Therefore I'm thinking that we could have for each profile (for artists team a "profile" can be either a protocol like "jabber" or "msn", but also a special profile like "gtalk" or "facebook" that use the jabber protocol but have their own icon) one "official" icon named "im-&lt;profile&gt;" and 6 more icons named "im-&lt;profile&gt;-&lt;xxx&gt;" (with xxx = red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow). Then instead of using the standard icon chooser, we could have something like this [1] or [2]. (Perhaps we could add a "More" button to show the standard icon chooser). Another possibility, is to have just one icon, save the colour by "appending" it to the icon name, and then "remove" it from the name and draw it using the effects. That seems to me a bit harder, because it requires to modify it in every place where the icons are used (even though for most of them we probably need just to modify the data() method from the account model). Finally another way to do this could be to implement in KIcon some special syntax to apply automatically a colour as effect from the icon-name (for example something like "im-jabber#red" or "im-jabber#FF0000") What do you think? Do you have any better idea? Cheers, Daniele [1]http://wstaw.org/m/2012/02/10/snapshot46.png [2]http://wstaw.org/m/2012/02/10/snapshot47.png ______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Daniele E. Domenichelli 2012-02-14T17:11:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6334 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292894 Summary: Lightning wallpaper was deleted from weather wallpaper artwork. Can it be restored? Product: artwork Version: unspecified Platform: Archlinux Packages OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: NOR Component: general AssignedTo: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org ReportedBy: darose&lt; at &gt;darose.net Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.8.0) OS: Linux After upgrading to KDE4.8 today, I noticed that the Lightning wallpaper was removed from the weather wallpaper artwork. (See: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&amp;revision=1269580) This is frustrating, since I use that wallpaper heavily as my desktop and console backgrounds. Can this artwork be restored? Or is there some particular reason why it had to be deleted? Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Install kde artwork weather wallpapers package v4.8.0. Actual Results: Lightning wallpapers are not part of package, and so cannot be displayed. Expected Results: I would like that artwork to continue to be available, so that it can be used as my desktop background. </pre> David Rosenstrauch 2012-01-30T18:59:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6332 <pre>Do we need larger sizes of this? The largest that I made was 48x48 but I still have the SVG files used to make them somewhere and can make larger sizes if they are needed. </pre> James Tyrer 2012-01-24T06:06:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6331 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292088 Summary: Aurorae theme cause graphic glitches without desktop effect Product: artwork Version: unspecified Platform: Slackware Packages OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: general AssignedTo: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org ReportedBy: hata_ph&lt; at &gt;hotmail.com Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2) OS: Linux I am running KDE-4.7.2 on VectorLinux 7 and when I disable desktop effect and use aurorae theme windows decoration it will produce some graphic glitches as show here http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/696/snapshot2y.png/. Change back to oxygen theme have no such problem...I try on OpenSUSE 12.1 KDE version and it produce the same effect Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Disable desktop effect and use aurorae based window decoration Actual Results: Graphic glitches happen Expected Results: Should work same like oxygen based theme with out the graphic glitches </pre> Lee Pak Hong 2012-01-21T03:23:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6306 <pre>Hi Oxygen team, I'm involved in the UI design of Plasma Active. Currently we are using existing Oxygen icons for everything. In order to stay consistent with the other Plasma Workspaces, we'd like to continue doing so. However there are several objects for which no suitable Oxygen icon exists yet (we're especially lacking monochrome icons for elements in the bar at the top of the screen and have some new concepts for which no icon exists yet). That's why I'd like to ask: Is the Oxygen team interested in contributing to Plasma Active? Otherwise we'd have to find our own designer (who might then produce icons not in line with the Oxygen style). I'm hoping that at least one of you is interested in Plasma Active and would like to help us. Other design help would be really appreciated as well, but the icons are the most pressing issue right now. Cheers, Thomas Pfeiffer ______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Thomas Pfeiffer 2011-12-08T14:03:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6285 <pre>Hi All, I finished my little contribution to KDE. You can find it in my Wuala drive as single files, or as a .tar. Just put all of them into your /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users/ folder and go to systemsettings/user details https://www.wuala.com/hermann.thomas/Fotos/kde/?key=fM4NS4n2TeqL&amp;mode=gallery You will have all as a choice for your new Avatar. What I need now is the clarification about the License. The Photographer likes the creative commons. If that would be possible that would be the best thing. The Other thing is to delete all old user Icons there are in the 4.8 trunk and replace with the new Set. We can have changes at 4.9. Who can Help me finish this task? thanks, Hermann </pre> Hermann Thomas 2011-11-14T20:34:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6282 <pre>Hi, we're having a discussion about painting custom icons in KDE-Telepathy. Basically we need an icon for action "sort contacts by their presence" and since there is no such icon in Oxygen set, we created one with custom painting, see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103063/ Now the team just can't decide if we should ship this or not, because it might get totally confusing with different icon themes etc. The pros are that doing this custom painting will always result in at least somewhat themed icons, ie. if you change your icon theme, the background icon will be correctly themed as well as the presence icons. The cons are that it might look really weird with different themes. So we'd like to know your opinion here. Can we ship it like that? Or should we create/request new icon for this? Thanks! -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer ______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Martin Klapetek 2011-11-11T15:29:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6276 <pre>Hi All, every coupe of years I ask in this list if it is time to produce a nice set of User Icons. I produced a Set years ago which wasn't perfect, but still better that whats there today and at least it made a start . To understand better what I mean, I took a screen shot from all major Desktop OS and put it in my Wuala drive. https://www.wuala.com/hermann.thomas/Fotos/kde/?key=fM4NS4n2TeqL Please look at the KDE, Gnome, Win, and MAC Icons. KDE is definitely the worst. The Pics from Gnome are also better, but seem a little stolen for me. I think I recognise the Space shuttle and Chess Figures from WinXP. Anyway I know a very good Photographer who is willing to share some Pics with the appropriate Licence. With the once I have I could produce a nice set. The thing is I only bother if there is a way to get rid of ALL old icons. Yes Even the conductor icon for Root, and replace them with a complete new Set. Some Argument from the past where that there should be Vector Icons. But then why aren't all Wallpaper Vector Papers? Then someone said the old are nice and he likes them. Yes that might be true, but some people still like KDE2 and KDE has moved on. So please share some your thoughts and give feedback if it's worth the effort, or If I should wait another few years again to write to this list. thanks, Hermann </pre> Hermann Thomas 2011-11-11T13:39:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6265 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285781 Summary: if rating.png is black rating is not visible Product: artwork Version: unspecified Platform: Ubuntu Packages OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: general AssignedTo: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org ReportedBy: bugzilla&lt; at &gt;kerridis.de Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) OS: Linux This is a wish concerning the usage of "rating.png". It is used to show the rating e.g. of files in dolphin and amarok. The problem with it is: when I use a black rating.png icon (in some icon themes, especially the "elegant" ones) all files look like they've been rated 5 stars. I guess you use desaturation for displaying the non-active rating stars but that does not work with black or grey colored rating.png. Please use two icons instead - maybe "rating.png" for active rating stars and "rating-inactive.png" or so for the greyed-out stars. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: instead of the default yellow rating.png star use a black one and look at your ratings in amarok and dolphin - all 5 star now ;) Expected Results: rating should be visible with monochrome icon themes too </pre> Janet 2011-11-04T21:13:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6248 <pre>Hello everyone, Aleix and I are developing a new game for the kde-edu called Pairs. https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/edu/pairs The game works good for us, but we would need someone to help us out with the Graphic layout. In particular the layout should be built to be easy for children and for touchscreen users. Also we would need an Icon for the game. Is there anyone interested in being part of our team to improve the game in the graphical aspects. Please answer us directly (We are not in the mailing-list) Thanks Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Marco Calignano 2011-10-25T21:34:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6247 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283928 Summary: Default font. GNOME has Cantarell, so KDE has... Product: artwork Version: unspecified Platform: Unlisted Binaries OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: general AssignedTo: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org ReportedBy: alejandronova&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Version: unspecified OS: Linux There is no KDE custom made font. Bitstream Vera/DejaVu Sans is too generic to be used as a brand. KDE has a lot to gain using a brand font, specially when it's trying to distinguish itself through the Plasma Active efforts. Looking at KDE artwork, there were attempts to use Fertigo and Diavlo, and now official artwork uses Droid Sans. I think KDE needs its own typeface, just like GNOME and Ubuntu are providing now. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Start KDE. Actual Results: KDE artwork and interface have incoherent typefaces. All the Powered by KDE stickers are done with Vera Sans, or whatever pleases the designer, and KDE image suffers as a result. Expected Results: KDE has a beautiful and coherent branding, that expresses in promotional material and in the desktop. KDE has a beautiful, default and unique typeface, complementing the KDE desktop experience. </pre> Alejandro Nova 2011-10-13T16:39:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6245 <pre>Hi, I am currently trying to get a working and up to date oxygen-icon-theme for KDE 3. After talking to Nuno at the Desktop summit I found a tar file at kde-look.org http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+Icon+Theme+for+KDE3?content=79046 That file is really nice but the icons are partly outdated. Therefore I would like to now if there is a complete list of the icon name mappings from KDE 3 to KDE 4? Until now I did only found a short and uncomplete list at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Oxygen/namingSpec My interest is to better integrate Kontact enterprise 3.5 into a KDE 4 workspace. Regards, Björn P.S.: Pleace cc me in your anwser because I am not subscribed to the list (yet). </pre> Bjoern Ricks 2011-08-26T11:31:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6244 <pre>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283284 Summary: kslideshow transitions sometimes slow, no choices Product: artwork Version: unspecified Platform: Ubuntu Packages OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: general AssignedTo: kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org ReportedBy: clickwir631&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.1) OS: Linux Sometimes, maybe one or two of the transitions for kslideshow are slow or at least take a while to perform. It would be REALLY REALLY nice to have a simple way to choose which (if any) transitions it uses. This isn't an issue that I've seen just recently, I've seen it off and on over the past year on a few systems that we have. One of the small dithering/pixel transitions seems to take a lot longer than the others. I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 2. KDE 4.7.1 and KSlideShow is 2.3.0 Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Enable KSlideshow, give it some images to loop. Watch. Expected Results: Average time for a transition to be uniform across all transitions. Also choices for what transitions to use, if any. </pre> clickwir631< at >gmail.com 2011-10-03T23:14:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.artists/6243 <pre>Hi, I'm writing about which (if any) icon should be used for an overwrite action, when saving a file over an existing file. I know Kate doesn't seem to use an icon for the overwrite button in the dialog that comes up. I was also trying to figure out if there was an exisiting icon somewhere I could use in Tellico for the same action. If there is no current icon, and I guess maybe the freedesktop spec doesn't call out one, could perhaps I request one? And maybe a KStandardAction to go along with it? In the mean time, might there be a particular icon that seems appropriate to mis-use, so to speak? Thanks! Robby ______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists&lt; at &gt;kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists </pre> Robby Stephenson 2011-07-03T21:27:34 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.kde.artists