So... progress continues on Oxygen 🙂
Over the last few weeks me and Pravin Kumar have been filling in some of the gaps in the icon set. There are still quite a few missing icons around the place, but slowly Oxygen is becoming a bit more complete again.
Its fun revisiting this old project after all these years. Sometimes I find myself looking at old icons wondering what younger me was thinking. Sometimes the answer is "not much"or, the answer is "way too much"..
Either way, Oxygen continues to grow.
Talking about fun...
I've also been spending some time investigating QML styling and themeing. And in this case not because i have immediate plans do this, but mostly because i am curious about what is possible and where the limitations actually are.
One thing I learned over the years is that there is often a large gap between what a toolkit "officially" allows and what a sufficiently stubborn designer can get away with 😉
Some of the ideas are probably completely unreasonable. Some not so much
Which usually means they are worth exploring.
I've been experimenting with possible directions for O² and thinking about how a future visual language could work. And this that im doing now is more of an exploration on the range rgther than what it actualy look slike
Nothing concrete yet.
Mostly experiments.
Questions.
Terrible ideas.
Possibly a few good ones hidden among them.
If things continue to move forward we (via KDAB) probably make a video showing some of these investigations, experiments and concepts. Sometimes its easier to explain visual ideas by showing them instead of writing walls of text about them.
So stay tuned 🙂
And as always... if you are using Oxygen, thank you.
Its nice seeing that this old project still has a few new stories to tell.
Olá,
It’s a shame that I was thrown out because of sealioning with rokejulianlockhart, otherwise I could have talked with you on the discuss.kde.org forum as well. But I have to say that I’m happy that Oxygen is now becoming so clean, colorful, and friendly, instead of being so black and white and having to use things like that. That’s why I brought some well-known old icon themes back into the game as SVGs, which are available on OpenDesktop, especially the WinNT icons, so that Windows users who come to Linux can feel comfortable and at home. And also because I still miss my XP.
CrystalSVG was an awesome theme, but unfortunately Everaldo Coelho removed himself from the scene and, because of the stuff with Mandriva, eventually withdrew his icon themes as well and slowly removed them over time. Today there is no homepage anymore, and all the official icon themes have disappeared.
I asked Martin about it on GitHub and got no answer, which is why I created CrystalSVG myself and recreated many icons as SVGs from PNGs that really were not pretty and therefore were not scalable either!
I’m very pleased to see that the Oxygen icons are finally becoming a little nicer again and, above all, more colorful!
I wish you all the best, ship ahoy, as sailors say on the sea, in the ocean of Linux, and may Oxygen continue to be developed so well!
best regards
Blacky
Blackcrack
Blackysgate.de (de/net)
If you want to chat we tend to be around on telegram on https://t.me/OxygenSquared
A joy to the eyes! Android and iOS started doing a lot of morphing animations in UI controls, might become a mainstream in the near future, so could be a cool opportunity to focus on that!
Yeap. That is one of the things I will focus the most. Interaction animations…
Strangely one of the things I’m having the most difficult time is negating my inner designer editing out the more silly exaggerated experiments on ui themeing.
To many years doing sane things kinda creates a is this sane OCD
Still in love with the oxygen style. Thanks to everybody bringing this back alive. Keep on rocking!
Thank you!
You are the best designer! I like Oxygen theme (plasma, icons,…). It should be by default in KDE!
KDE 4.x looked ultra modern before 15-20 years ago.
Thank you a lot for your hard work! You rock!