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The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.
It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, two themes for Plasma Workspaces, and a TrueType font family.
The Oxygen theme set is used by default for Plasma Workspaces in most
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The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.
It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, two themes for Plasma Workspaces, and a TrueType font family.
The Oxygen theme set is used by default for Plasma Workspaces in most Linux distribution
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s, like Fedora
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, Kubuntu
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, and openSUSE.
History
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 K Desktop Environment 3 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”.Oxygen Fonts
On the Oxygen Font sub-project was announced. The first release – version 0.1 – was done a month later. The 0.2 release from included refinements and added a monospace font.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 icon sets and themes, such as theTango Desktop Project
The Tango Desktop Project was an open-source initiative to create a set of design guidelines and to provide a consistent user experience for applications on desktop environments. The project created a set of icons known as the Tango Icon Lib ...
.
People
* Nuno Pinheiro (''current coordinator'') *David Vignoni
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Vignoni was born in Cesena, Italy. He is the creator of the Nuvola, Nuvola icon set, which has been used in many projects, includin ...
(''founder'')
* Kenneth Wimer (''founder'')
See also
*Tango Desktop Project
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– developers of a public domain icon set
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References
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