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Planet KDE: I just want us to feel something…
Quoting: I just want us to feel something… – Nuno-Icons —
So... Koko needed a new icon.
Koko is KDE's image viewer, sharing its name with the rather famous gorilla, and yes, putting a gorilla in the icon would have made perfect sense... but we all love cats, and so did KOKO, so here we are 😀
And while making this ridiculously cute thing I kept thinking about something that has been bothering me more and more. Hopefully the cuteness of the cat will alleviate the ranty nature of what follows 🙂
Why is so much of what we design today so f...... boring?
We have incredible displays, GPUs doing absurd things, animation engines, shaders, QML, tools I could only dream about 20 years ago... and somehow so much of what we make with all of that looks like the same five rectangles arranged in slightly different ways.
Clean. and forgettable, austere but not in a brutalist way, its.... just booooring .
I've spent quite a bit of time recently bringing bits of old Oxygen back to life, and I know there is a temptation to read that as nostalgia, as if my answer is “look, things were better when we had shiny icons!”