Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (13 mails)

[Hylke Bons <h.bons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 08:17, Hylke Bons wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> ...
>
>   
>> Francis Giannaros wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I've noticed that in recent versions the wallpapers have generally
>>> moved away from the scenic/landscape images
>>>       
> ... 
>   
>>> 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)
>>>       
> ...
>
> Hi Hylke and Francis,
>
> scenic wallpapers are my preferred type. Blue sky or some other monotonous 
> color in the top left corner to make icons visible is fine. I don't change 
> background often as it is used to identify currently booted version, but 
> simple abstract images are not used here. 
>
> The last Red Hat I installed was RH9 and I was amazed with backgrounds and 
> effect that it had on guys in a class. They thought windows is good looking, 
> but after RH9 they changed opinion. On the same computer I installed SUSE 9.1 
> and while it was better technically you can guess what was booted more often. 
>
> Power of graphical design is amazing. 
>   
So true, this may sound stupid, but I choose my distro based on the
(default) looks of it (now openSUSE).
And yes, RH9 to Fedora4 were all beautiful, I switched to SUSE around
Fedora 4. :P

I still think the default should be an abstract wallpaper, but with a
lot of beautiful alternatives to choose from.
Currently there's nothing interesting shipped with openSUSE, I really
like the photo's of Garrett LeSage (http://www.opensuse.org), I use them
a lot as my wallpapers, I think he was also responsible for the
wallpapers in Red Hat. So maybe we can ask him to release some
of his pictures  under open terms and ship them with the next openSUSE. :)

Hylke


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