Amarok Blog

In collaboration with Lee Olson, I have been trying to come up with a new svg theme for Amarok 2 with the working title of "Graywolf".

The main issue we are facing is that Amarok 2, being cross platform, will run on a multitude of different setups each with their own look and color scheme. Unfortunately, this makes it very hard to do svg files that will look good on all platforms, as the colors might be way off.

This new theme attempts to address this by not using very much color at all in the basic svgs. The current idea is to attempt to programatically tint these svgs with the dominant color scheme color, if it is very pronounced ( and non gray ).

The really great thing about this new theme is, that for the first time, we actually have a set of svgs that all look like they belong together. And even though the theme itself does not have much color, Amarok 2 will most likely not be dull as there will be context applets and album covers shown all over the place.

Anyway, I just finished the very initial integration of Lee's new svgs and added some supporting code, and thought I would show it off, even though it still needs quite a bit of work.

And yes, I know some of you will notice right away, but I am having issues with anti aliasing under KDE4 at the moment, so a lot of the text looks like crap!


So without further ado, I give you, "Graywolf"