Oxygen Project
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The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE 4, the current release of the K Desktop Environment. The original purpose was to create a new set of icons but expanded to include a new theme, which included a new cursor, widget and window theme, and sounds. It represents a break with the cartoonish look of previous KDE graphics and iconsets, adopting a more photo-realistic style. One of the overall goals of Oxygen was to provide a nice looking desktop that did not distract the user, so the icons and themes use a desaturated color palette. The name Oxygen came from a joke between the developers that they wanted to "bring a breath of fresh air to the desktop".
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[edit] Standardization
The Oxygen Project aims to offer standard icons, guidelines and a style guide. It builds on the freedesktop.org Standard Icon Naming Specification and Standard Icon Theme, allowing consistency across applications. There is an ongoing effort for supporting these specifications in different desktops, and by different iconsets and themes, such as the Tango Desktop Project.
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 KDE alpha release, showing oxygen icons with KDE 3.5.x widgets and window decoration. |
 Oxygen progress as of Beta 1, showing the run dialogue, clock plasmoid and some updated icons in the Dolphin file manager. |
 Beta 4 with Oxygen widgets and window decoration. A number of Plasma applets can be seen in the background. |
 RC2 with Oxygen panel. |
 Final release, featuring improved contrast and more polish from the widget style, and a number of new icons. |
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[edit] External links
- Official website
- Oxygen Presentation (hi-res PDF)
- KDE.News - The Road to KDE 4: Oxygen Artwork and Icons
- KDE.News - The Road to KDE 4: Updates and Addenda - Shows progress on icons since above article.
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