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The Symbolic level. A notebook and pencil together are
symbolic for a simple text editor, a notebook and a fountain pen for a
more advanced text editor. A car, a bucket and a brush symbolize an
application to wash a car. The Object level. Objects often have an
archetypal form and deviations from that form. You can have a classical
watch or a Swatch. Someone looking for a tool to set the system time
may overlook the Swatch, he will not overlook the classical watch. Each one of us has an other image of a classical watch in his mind. You
may have experienced being in a supermarket, looking for a certain
product, while having the wrong image of it in your mind. It is hard to
find then, while with the right image in mind it is spotted instantly.
For this reason the artist should not follow his own image and paint it
as he sees it in his mind's eye. He should bring it down to the
essential elements. These are often cartoonish. Instantly recognizable
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| submitted by land0 on April 28, 2006 | |
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Currently I have 21458 photos according to digikam's database (which are using 13 Gb according to du ). When someone asks me to put some album in my web server I hate to lose my time exporting to html, generating thumbnails and resized 1024x768 versions of my pictures which occupy space in my HD that I'm usually hesitant to remove. Also, when kimdaba exports the images to html, it includes the associated tags, but digikam doesn't. which makes digikam's web exports be a bit unusable for me. So last saturday evening I started a new project: Creating a web interface to digikam. 
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| submitted by theobroma on April 25, 2006 | |
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Thanks to the indefatigable work of Laurent Montel, Adrian Page and Sven Langkamp, Krita 2.0 now starts up. You cannot load an image, create an image or actually do anything but start it, of course. But given the enormity of the task of porting a really big Qt3 application — and one that depends on almost all of the KOffice libraries and KDE libraries — this is a very impressive result.
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| submitted by theobroma on April 13, 2006 | |
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(image by Andreas Nilsson - http://ramnet.se/~nisse/blog/?p=23)
Scribus with a new look. Below are the first screenshots of Scribus using the cross platform icons from the Tango Project.
"Tango exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software."
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| submitted by KA.o web team on April 11, 2006 | |
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With the recent update to KDE being tagged at 3.5.2, I thought it would be a good time to get together a changelog and post an update of SuperKaramba to kdelook.org. Many bugs were fixed that related to New Stuff. Many new functions and examples of how to use them, such as changing the update interval, passing messages between two different themes, the ability to disable/enable the right click menu on themes, etc.
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| submitted by KA.o web team on March 21, 2006 | |
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Please everyone in the Lyon, France, EU area come and attend the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting March 17, 18, and 19, 2006. This conference is going to be an excellent place to meet Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library artists and developers (as well as artists and developers from other creative applications). I (rejon) am presenting [...]
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| submitted by land0 on March 2, 2006 | |
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Before I worked on SuperKaramba's codebase, I was a user. One of the things I've been waiting to see developed is a SK theme that is an interactive game. That wait is now over and the results are simply amazing for the, not one, but two that have recently come out.
Matt, the Liquid Weather author, released Su-per-Doku and Jouni, known as Chryseus on IRC, has released 15 pieces as a SK theme (and it even has smooth animations when the blocks move positions =).
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| submitted by KA.o web team on February 27, 2006 | |
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First set up the dimensions with some guides to help in the process. For 8.5 x 11 size paper: - Create new document (8.5 x 11 inches and .5 inch margins, default unit *inches*)
- Page -> Manage guides:
- Add Horiz. Guides at 0.5, 2.5, 4.5
- Add Vert. Guides at 0.5, 4.0, 4.5, 8.0
- View -> show guides
- Page -> snap to guides
- Insert shape (rectangle) to fit in upper left area sized for a typical 2x3.5 inch business card, and resize so that it fills entire region bounded by the guide.
- Now design your card within that region.
- Group all the elements of the card together as a single unit.
- <uncheck> Page -> Snap to Guides
- Select the business card
- Item -> Multiple duplicate -> No. copies = 1, Horiz shift = 3.50, Vert. Shift = 0.00
- Select the top row and multiple duplicate vertically to fill the page.
- Item -> Multiple duplicate -> No. copies = 4, Horiz shift = 0.00, Vert. Shift = 2.00
- Done.
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| submitted by KA.o web team on February 22, 2006 | |
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We have installed Creative Commons’ ccHost, “an open source (GPL licensed) project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata (used by ccMixter and other sites), onto the Open Clip Art Library’s server. The general idea is that this system is to take [...]
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| submitted by land0 on February 16, 2006 | |
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We are hoping that the artist, Franccesco Rollandin, will contact us via our contact form to get in touch with someone who is interested in your work, Jochen Schäfer. Thanks! Also, another company is looking for the artists: Dan Gerhards, The Structor and AJ Ashton. Please contact us to get in touch with Nancy Hennessy, [...]
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