RE: Thoughts & suggestions

[Mike Palczewski <mpalczew u washington edu>]

I've noticed that kde does a very crappy job with the gnome icons. I'm
comparing the gnome-menu under kde and the kde-menu under gnome. I've 
always thought gnome to have the prettier icons. kde icons all look 
the same to me.

Mike

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:55:46 Andrew Post wrote:
> The only problem with the GNOME icon set is that the GMC ones don't display
> well at small sizes. They're just too subtle. I guess that's the reason why
> gmc doesn't display icons in brief or detailed views.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerry Chu [mailto:gerrychu@bigfoot.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 6:48 PM
> > To: GNOME-List
> > Subject: RE: Thoughts & suggestions
> >
> >
> >
> > > (6) I've been comparing KDE icons and Gnome icons recently. I don't
> > > mean to complain or start flames, but it seemed the KDE icons tended
> > > to look prettier. This is NOT because the Gnome icons are just ugly,
> > > rather, the KDE icons have two things going for them:
> > >
> > > 	(a) They contain a lot of bright, primary colors, that stand
> > > 	out. Always good. Gnome icons, I've noticed, go for a greater
> > > 	variety of colors, but have too much of the duller kind.
> > > 	(b) KDE icons have dark, black, outlines. This makes the icon
> > > 	more well-defined. Gnome icons have that "shadow" thing, but
> > > 	need to be outlined everywhere with nice dark lines.
> >
> > Personally, I always thought that KDE icons, because of the
> > bright, primary
> > colors, made KDE it look a lot like a children's toy. It's all
> > opinion, but
> > personally I like GNOME's icons better and appreciate Tigert's excellent
> > work.
> >
> > Gerry Chu
> > gerrychu@bigfoot.com
> >
> >
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