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Redhat's new look

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2002-08-22 17:57. Red Hat

Texstar of pclinuxonline, recently posted a bunch of screenshots from Redhat's 3rd beta release known as null. Redhat has made a huge effort via the use of similar icons and themes to make their packaging of GNOME and KDE resemble each other more closely . What do you think? (Poll Attached)
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Re: Redhat's new look

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Mon, 2002-08-26 00:00.

"However, KDE looks plain awful. KDE should use the same icons as Gnome... or atleast look-alikes of them. Why go to all that work and only use those icons for Gnome? It doesn't make sense! The titlebar/window-decor could be made more to look like Gnome as well."

Because it's a beta! It's still very much work in progress. The plan is to have consistent icons for everything (GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, ...). They also have a Bluecurve KWin style in their artworks package which I couldn't compile yet, so I guess they are indeed working on making the KDE windowmanager look like the GNOME windowmanager.

"The only question is will they stop trying to immitate windows and start adding more "apple'ness"? That is to say, the UI needs to not only be fast and friendly, but different enough to be innovative"

Of course! I don't see a lot of Windows copying here. And don't forget that the RedHat CEO recently stated that the way to beat Microsoft isn't to clone them but to outflank them. I'm pretty optimistic here that they will be doing mostly the right thing. But for the beginning, a little bit of Windows "compatibility" isn't a bad idea to "lure them over". ;)

"ability to change to a white cursor scheme (I'm guessing it only works for gtk-based apps, but I hope I'm wrong)"

You are wrong! Cursors are X-specific. :) White cursor everywhere. Only some special cursors are still black like the arrow with hourglass in Mozilla but that's very rare.

"DON'T STOP YET."

Nobody plans to! ;)

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