Re: FINAL: All backgrounds proposals

[Andrea Cimitan <andrea cimitan gmail com>]

Il giorno dom, 26/08/2007 alle 12.43 +0200, Lapo Calamandrei ha
scritto: 
> I'm not sure your rationale against nature wallpapers works, It's
> mostly a personal taste issue. I like the garrett leaf, and it can
> nicelly work as a wallpaper since it's a macro photo and it doesn't
> have so many details, but it needs some touchups. Anyway space may be
> an issue and so if we want to go for an abstarct bg I'd choose the 3rd
> or the 4th in your selection. Andreas, what do you think?
> 
Absolutely not just tastes. See the 8 points to support abstract wallz.
Usability, customizable colors (when users will change their gtk theme
in the future), originality, space, resizable/scalable, long-term usage
(months/years), and gnome HIG.

A comparison of the two wallz with various colors (see how tango colors
look better with the tango blue of the abstact wallpaper):
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8793/schermatawa8.png
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2973/schermata2zx8.png

Obviusly an abstract wallpaper could go green if you want, and the users
could still customize it if they prefer the blue :)

I'm ready to bet with that direction (also after seeing the success of
the Apple aqua wallpaper), and I will push new nature wallpapers when we
will have something really good on our hands. With a wallpaper that
convince us _totally_, not just some of them. Ready for 2.22 baby? :)
Now the only one that looks fine with clearlooks and other themes is
"GreenMeadow", the big leaf is nice but its gradients and details makes
it less adaptable chamging wallpapers 
> Ciao
> Lapo
> 
Hi dudes
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Andrea Cimitan <andrea cimitan gmail com>