Re: from packjam an art-gnome fan and member

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 7 Mar 2007, at 13:16, Vasek Potocek wrote:

> > An interesting suggestion, but what about art created in other tools 
> > such as Inkscape?
> > Perhaps we should we remove the Nature, Abstract and "Other" sections 
> > complety, and just have a section for GNOME wallpapers? What do other 
> > people think about this?
>
> That is, to leave on art.gnome.org only wallpapers related to the 
> GNOME project somehow? I think I can't agree. I belong to people who 
> visit this site mainly to get wallpapers, and here are they guaranteed 
> to be of high quality. This is enough to make the site exceptional. 
> Some of the wallpapers are categorized as GNOME only because they have 
> the GNOME logo or "GNOME" text embedded somewhere, which is sometimes 
> done a bit "violently", and such step would only help this.

So what we really need is some rules that dissuade people from 
submitting their holiday photos to art.gnome.org, claiming them as 
wallpapers. I think this is the biggest problem at the moment in terms 
of keep the quality high. Do you have any ideas of how you consider 
something to be a high quality wallpaper?

Regards,

Thomas