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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