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KDE 3.1 New Feature Guide (cont'd)
Eye Candy
Eye Candy
The artistically-inclined KDE contributors have showered us with a bounty of new eye candy.
Keramik Style. KDE 3.1 provides users with a new, completely
original widget style. From buttons to lists and window decorations,
Keramik adds a fresh new look to KDE, highlighting the tremendous
progress under the hood and in the rapidly-expanding application mix
ready to serve KDE users.
Crystal Icons (SVG). As shown in this
screenshot, KDE 3.1 will ship with the contemporary Crystal icon set as the
default icon theme. Although for this release these icons have been
pre-rendered as PNG images, this very original and stunning icon set
is implemented using the cutting-edge Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
technology. This technology will enable rendering these icons at any
arbitrary size and color combinations in future releases. Of course
a number of alternative icon sets, including the prior default
hicolor theme, are available in the expanded KDE artwork
package (kdeartwork) and from the
KDE Look website.
Theme manager. To help manage these new stunning and contemporary themes, KDE will provide a new theme manager with improved theme style and color decoration previews (screenshot).
Miscellaneous. For those with CPU cycles to burn, a variety of new features add to the interactiveness and overall beauty of the desktop. Menus, for instance, can be configured to use attractive drop shadows, as shown in the screenshot above. And panel icons now support mouse-over animations.