Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (13 mails)

["Francis Giannaros" <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I've noticed that in recent versions the wallpapers have generally
moved away from the scenic/landscape images (though we had the
chameleon for a bit) with a little branding, to more abstract
monochrome type of wallpaper stripped of branding. I was wondering,
were there any compelling reasons for this?

Seeing the Fedora background (with the hot-air balloons and "Fedora"
in the bottom-right) got me thinking a little. There are nice
advantages to wallpaper branding:
* Users always take screenshots. A completely different user can
immediately recognise which desktop they're using if they see their
desktop wallpaper, so that's really good for instant identification.
* Making users more obviously proud of using openSUSE (this might
sound petty, but it happens)

I think a huge chameleon is way too bold and generally colour-rich for
a background, but are landscapes ruled out? I wasn't sure if I was the
only one that preferred a nice landscape so asked a few people,
specifically pointing out a few abstract ones (10.2, 10.3, kde celtic)
and some other landscape ones (stormgreen, etc) and most preferred the
landscape ones and a couple said the kde celtic. Might not be a
representative survey, but I think there's good reasons for at least
having an abstract background with branding, or a landscape one with
such.

Any thoughts? What do others prefer?

Regards,
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Francis Giannaros   http://francis.giannaros.org
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