Quote "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" I think that's especially true of desktops. Gnome doesn't appeal to me at all! Regards John One thing though. When I reply to a mail on this list I have to fully type kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx in the "reply to:" field. Why doesn't it auto complete as the "to:" field and all others do? On Sunday 18 December 2005 05:48, kitts wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:52 IST, Anders Storsveen wrote: > > I have taken a screenshot of a regular gnome desktop, just to show how > > much more beautiful it can become if you just implement a few things.. > > definantly for kde4, but preferably for 3.5.x too. > > > > http://huldreveien.generation.no/~wakko/gnome2.jpg > > > > Here you see the rubberband selector, that is transparent (without > > performance penalties at all, completely smooth, while the > > implementation I have seen on kde-look.org for kde is slow like hxll! > > > > Also the selected icons get a nice rounded and anti-aliased selection, > > with a little space. You also see the selected, but inactive > > "Filesystem" Icon. The window decorations is also rounded. > > > > Also the icons of the movies are previews, which are beautifully done > > with a movie-film-like effect blended in. I'd LOVE to see stuff like > > this in kde. Font sizes and color inversion depending on hue is also > > nice! > > Maybe i am missing the point... but i think all of those you describe are > also a part of KDE. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.