On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:49, Jakub Steiner wrote: > I'm rarely this negative, but none of the wallpapers you propose make a > good example of what I'd like to see in gnome-backgrounds. Dude, you've got a much better eye than I do, so your feedback and ideas are much appreciated. I have not the artistic skill to come up with anything very impressive, which means that I'm reliant on what people on these lists can produce and a.g.o > I think a gnome wallpaper should be > * simple. low contrast image is a must. anything gaining too much > attention fails as a wallpaper. You have to perfectly see the > items on your desktop. Agreed - maybe some simple but well chosen tiles would work well.. would also help keep the file size down. I'm think that I'll use http://xsu.sourceforge.net/Screenshot-stripes.png as the default background in 2.5 unless someone can come up with anything better. > * gnome branded. a gnome2 fancy button or the simple foot shape > should be part of the wallpaper There is a nice translucent gnome foot in gnome-desktop/pixmaps/gnome-background-image.png , but stuff like that only works well with well chosen background colors. If we use something like luca's design for a background chooser(attached) then we could choose a set of default colors too. > But these are quite bland (including the simple.png rip-off ;). I really > like the single-color-toned abstract textures that osX ships with. Never seen them i'm afraid... > A nice compromise would be the stuff that garrett does with his macro > photography. The field of depth makes most of the shot blurry, there are > large single colored areas. check his stuff on http://linuxart.com. I > would talk to him and discuss possibilities creating some wallpapers out > of those images. Some of his stuff is insanely cool: > > http://linuxart.com/photoview.phtml?sid=03jun09-arboretum_dusk&iid=0609-185434 > http://linuxart.com/photoview.phtml?page=1&sid=03jun09-arboretum_dusk&iid=0609-184114 > http://linuxart.com/photoview.phtml?page=1&sid=03jun09-arboretum_dusk&iid=0609-184932 Yeah. these look dead sexy. If we could put together a few of these and some nice patterns we'd be well set. Will take more work though.. -- Mark Finlay Computer Science Student E-Mail: sisob_AT_tuxfamily_DOT_org Jabber: sisob_AT_jabber_DOT_org Blog: http://sisob.tuxfamily.org http://advogato.org/person/sisob
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