Image by: Nuno Pinheiro Following posts on specific work being done on Oxygen, this post is going to try to go beyond the manifest work and look at the bigger picture driving it. The motivation for…
Just think of how long it takes to craft a skeuomorphic icon compared to a symbolic monochrome one.
About the same time.
To be fair I’m not too fond of extremely colorful icons. They do have their place, but in most interfaces I do prefer flat or slightly shadowed icons.
I value more the UX of the interface than the design of the icons, tough the icons are indeed important. Painting icons over KDE does not really change how you interact with KDE.
I don’t particularly like KDE, but have not found a better DE anyway.
About the same time.
To be fair I’m not too fond of extremely colorful icons. They do have their place, but in most interfaces I do prefer flat or slightly shadowed icons.
I value more the UX of the interface than the design of the icons, tough the icons are indeed important. Painting icons over KDE does not really change how you interact with KDE.
I don’t particularly like KDE, but have not found a better DE anyway.