it's funny ... when i blog about eye candy, some people think i mean to say "slow". and when i blog about performance, there are the people who think i mean "plain jane". just like how when i write about usability, that gets translated into "no features" for some people. =P
well, i don't believe much in dualism. i find such things don't exist in life except in artificial circumstances. life is mostly greys. even the black and white issues are more charcoal and eggshell usually ;)
so when i blogged about plasma needing to be performant, i wasn't saying it needs to look boring. it needs to look sexy and be performant. and this is totally doable.
yes, i want it all. give me my cake and let me eat it, and all that jazz! you can ask others in kde project who have had to dealt with my "no! we can do it! we must do it! i will not accept nor be content with a compromise here!" moments about that ;)
*waves to seli*
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Amen, brother.
A performance & eye candy example: Opera 6 with nice mouse-over 'glow' buttons runs pretty good on a Pentium 100. And eye candy is in this case the "Bugs" theme, using ladybugs as forward/backward button, and other creatures.
Too bad that's not an Open Source example, but you get the picture ;)
Opera is an excellent example. KDE could learn a few tricks from them, I think...
(not the least being how they managed to drastically clean up and usableify their default UI for v8 while /improving/ functionality. before, every time I installed Opera I regularly spent like half an hour tweaking it to make it look less awful -- now, I change at most two things. (turn the dumb 'start bar' thing off, and move the sidepanels to the right side))
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