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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.