KDE Art. This week, "the artist currently known as Torsten" Rahn provided us with a second screenshot of the new high-colour icons that the KDE artist team is currently working on. Torsten also expressed intentions of dropping the 40-colour icon sets in favour of dithering the high-colour ones as necessary; it is also likely that they will switch from the XPM format to PNG. Artists interested in joining the the KDE artist team to help with icons, logos, rendering, backgrounds, tiles and such should contact torsten@kde.org.
KPanel. There's been a lot of discussion on the matter of applets, docking and swallowing in KDE. The thread started with this message from Matthias Ettrich and diverged somewhat into menubar/toolbar issues including this description of a menubar/toolbar consolidation from Glen Parker. It turns out that Sirtaj Singh Kang has already laid out the foundation for an implementation of this idea. Matthias finished up with an explanation of the problems associated with tear-off menus.
KConfig. Preston Brown raised the issue of switching from INI-style config and desktop files to XML, possibly in coorperation with the GNOME folks. Cristian Tibirna summed up some of the issues involved; there appears to be little consensus on whether XML would be a worthwhile improvement or not.
KDE Quickies. Also this week, David Sweet announced a new mini-HOWTO for KDE developers, and David Faure released a temporary patch for the infamous FTP upload problem that was introduced in KDE 1.1.1.
