Re: GNOME Backgrounds Revamp

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno sab, 03/12/2005 alle 23.17 +0000, Thomas Wood ha scritto:
> There was a small discussion on #tango (until we were politely told to 
> go else where ;-) ) the other day about what we should do with 
> gnome-backgrounds.
> 
> It transpired that several people weren't happy with the quality of the 
> current backgrounds in the package. I want to rectify that, and I want 
> to make sure that it contains a set of backgrounds that the likes of 
> jimmac, andreasn and lapo will actually use and love!
> 
> We will have to revamp the current collection by throwing out some of 
> the existing backgrounds. This is because we cannot have too many 
> backgrounds installed as it makes the background selector list too long.
> 
> Several people agree that andreasn's tiles [1] are very nice and 
> suitable replacements for the current set. I suggest we don't include 
> more than three or four however, for the reasons above.

See also this screenshot:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/851/507/1600/Screenshot.png

Really good as transient+tile bg.