Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (13 mails)

[Hylke Bons <h.bons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the wiki:

"The goal of the default wallpaper graphic is to be unobrtusive and
allow the items on the desktop to be seen. It should not hinder the
overview of user's desktop.

While a solid color background seems to be a perfect fit based on the
goal above, the wallpaper also shouldn't be completely dull and boring.

It is very likely that a user will customize a wallpaper and even go
against the outlined goal, putting a photo of his beloved one as the
background. The default graphic however should only be some sort of
abstract shape with low contrast of the texture. Abstract shapes work
best for two reasons. First it doesn't make the human visual system
focus on the background, but the items on top of it and also it avoids
cultural or religious specifics. Using a picture of an animal might have
such implications and in worst case scenario insult the user."

I very much agree on this, I prefer no branding. Usually keep the
default wallpaper for a week, then change to something else.

Hylke


Francis Giannaros wrote:
> 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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