Dear digiKam fans and users, After three months of active development, bug triage, and feature integration, the digiKam team is proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 9.1.0. This version builds on the foundation of 9.0.0, introducing new features, performance improvements, and a significant number of bug fixes to enhance stability, usability, and workflow efficiency. This release focuses on database migration, preview enhancements, advanced search, and usability improvements across the board...
So… more Oxygen icons 
This weekend I been filling some of the more obvious holes in the icon set and recently these 2 landed. 
The first one is for KeepSecret, the application that is replacing the old KWallet. Security icons are funny. There are only so many ways to draw "keep your stuff safe" before you end up with another lock icon. Or a key. Or a lock pretending not to be a lock. I ended up going with a small vault door. Which is basically also a lock pretending not to be a lock but at least it looks kinda cool, and more important I think it looks as smart as our users are... The other one is for generic package managers. 
And apparently software still arrives in wooden crates. 
I dont know who started this visual convention but after all these years I kinda stopped questioning it. Software packages are boxes. Everybody understands boxes. Lets move on, and debate the real important things such as the relevance of the save icon as a flopy device 
One thing that I love about icon design is how different the process becomes depending on size. At large sizes you can spend hours messing around with materials, reflections, shadows and tiny details. At small sizes all that disappears and suddenly you are fighting for every pixel. trying to keep the meanigfull details and creating a source svg monster in Oxygen repo I think icon design is really just the art of deciding what can be removed before the whole thing falls apart. Talking about things that may or may not fall apart… I've also been spending some time exploring styling in QML and thinking about possible future directions for O². Nothing concrete yet. Mostly experiments. Some ideas are sensible. Some ideas are absolutely not sensible. On propose The main goal is realy to show range of things I would ike to see available on Union. Those are usually the interesting ones. 
Right now I'm more interested in exploring the range of possibilities than deciding what a final result should look like. There are some surprisingly fun things hidden in there. If all goes well we will soonish publish a video with KDAB showing some of these experiments and crazy ideas. Or at least the ones that dont completely explode before then So stay tuned. And as always, thanks for using Oxygen. This old project still finding new excuses to keep going...