Hi, there seems to be a computer called 'Design SUSE'. If you enter the version number of the upcoming release it will output a design. After a while I saw that there must be a bug in the system. Here is a short list: 10.1: Great design 10.0: Bad design 9.3: Great design 9.2: Bad design 9.1: Great design It seems that every even number does get a boring style. We should really fix the machine before 10.2 comes out. Could we brake that line and give 10.2 an even nicer style then 10.1 (if possible)? Azerion
onsdag 24 maj 2006 04:58 skrev Azerion Fasco:
10.1: Great design 10.0: Bad design 9.3: Great design 9.2: Bad design 9.1: Great design
It seems that every even number does get a boring style. We should really fix the machine before 10.2 comes out. Could we brake that line and give 10.2 an even nicer style then 10.1 (if possible)?
I can make jokes about the artwork too.. 9.3 looked like SuSE - greenish, lizards and everything, very nice. 10.0 looked Like Windows - blue and booooring, pretty ugly. 10.1 looks like Mac OS - blue again, but a different shade and with the waves, very pretty but not exactly original. 10.2 what will it look like? SUSE again? Amiga OS? Personally I prefer something along the lines of 9.3 - something that does not imitate better known proprietary OSes and has a little attitude. I don't like to compare SUSE with Ubuntu - but I think Ubuntu has proven that having artwork that stands out (to put it nicely), can be helpful in the pursuit of success. Better differentiate than to imitate and blend in. Martin / cb400f
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:00:59PM +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
9.3 looked like SuSE - greenish, lizards and everything, very nice.
10.0 looked Like Windows - blue and booooring, pretty ugly.
10.1 looks like Mac OS - blue again, but a different shade and with the waves, very pretty but not exactly original.
10.2 what will it look like? SUSE again? Amiga OS?
BeOS? C64?
Personally I prefer something along the lines of 9.3 - something that does not imitate better known proprietary OSes and has a little attitude. I don't like to compare SUSE with Ubuntu - but I think Ubuntu has proven that having artwork that stands out (to put it nicely), can be helpful in the pursuit of success. Better differentiate than to imitate and blend in.
Sorry for the hard work of the art people. I did not like one of the themes. However it is not hard to change. It is something I don't like on any OS, so it will be mostly a personal thing. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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Hmmmm, I was used to change the wallpaper cause I have some point it should be like. But the default one is now allready a few weeks on my desktop and that is VERY long for a standard. Maybe it is a good idea to start a competition and let some guys from this mailinglist vote and some Joe Avarage's.... ================== KDM and (setup)bootscreen in 9.3 are so cewl: Bootscreen: http://www.howtoforge.com/images/perfect_setup_suse9_3/15.jpg Setup Bootscreen: http://hup.hu/old/images/hup/SuSE/9.3rc1/1.png
Azerion wrote:
Hmmmm, I was used to change the wallpaper cause I have some point it should be like. But the default one is now allready a few weeks on my desktop and that is VERY long for a standard. Maybe it is a good idea to start a competition and let some guys from this mailinglist vote and some Joe Avarage's....
I use my own photographs, for example from here: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:26:35PM +0200, jdd wrote:
Azerion wrote:
Hmmmm, I was used to change the wallpaper cause I have some point it should be like. But the default one is now allready a few weeks on my desktop and that is VERY long for a standard. Maybe it is a good idea to start a competition and let some guys from this mailinglist vote and some Joe Avarage's....
I use my own photographs, for example from here:
I switch backgrounds on my two 1600x1200 every 2 minutes with crontab. The reason is the abount of backgrounds I have. houghi@penne : find ~/wallpaper/ -name "*.jpg"|wc -l 27124 houghi@penne : du -sh ~/wallpaper/ 3.3G /home/houghi/wallpaper/ I use the following (selfmade and ugly) script: #!/bin/bash # DIR=/home/houghi/wallpaper for COUNT in `seq 0 1` do LINES=$((`wc -l < $DIR/wallpapers.txt`)) if [ $LINES -eq "0" ] then find $DIR|grep jpg > $DIR/wallpapers.txt LINES=$((`wc -l < $DIR/wallpapers.txt`)) rm $DIR/latest.txt touch $DIR/latest.txt fi FILE=`head -$((($RANDOM * 32678 +$RANDOM) % $LINES + 1)) \ $DIR/wallpapers.txt|tail -1` grep $FILE -v $DIR/wallpapers.txt > $DIR/wallpapers.txt.bak mv $DIR/wallpapers.txt.bak $DIR/wallpapers.txt FILE=`echo $FILE|awk -F: '{print $NF}'` DISPLAY=:0.${COUNT} /usr/X11R6/bin/wmsetbg -a $FILE echo "${COUNT} $FILE" >> $DIR/latest.txt done I then also have a `tail -f ~/wallpaper/latest.txt` running in a semitransparent window, so I can see what the last 4 (2 for each screen) wterm -g 128x19 -tr -bg red -fg yellow -sh +sb The most difficult part however is sorting all these files. :-) -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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I don't do too much with fonts and color themes, but I do set my wallpaper. My desktop background is http://flickr.com/photos/lillianbennett/100684063/in/set-72057594065632365/o... just about all my desktops. It looks great with the blue/green default Windows XP and with the blues and greens of SUSE 10.0 and 10.1. It's a photo my sister-in-law took Charlie
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 21:26, Charlie Hitselberger wrote:
I don't do too much with fonts and color themes, but I do set my wallpaper. My desktop background is http://flickr.com/photos/lillianbennett/100684063/in/set-72057594065632365/ on just about all my desktops. It looks great with the blue/green default Windows XP and with the blues and greens of SUSE 10.0 and 10.1. It's a photo my sister-in-law took
Charlie
Hi Charlie I couldn't get to the particular picture in the URL, but your sister-in-law takes some excellent pictures! As a general question, is there a policy for passing pictures to SUSE for inclusion as default backgrounds, or is this mainly down to the Gnome and KDE people, with maybe some latitude on SUSE's (sp?) part? I've taken some nice(ish) pictures that work well for me as backgrounds and was wondering. Or do I just submit them to kde-look.org and hope someone likes them :) Cheers Pete
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:49:22PM +0100, Pete Connolly wrote:
I couldn't get to the particular picture in the URL, but your sister-in-law takes some excellent pictures!
Neither did I and who is this sister-in-law yu are talking about?
As a general question, is there a policy for passing pictures to SUSE for inclusion as default backgrounds, or is this mainly down to the Gnome and KDE people, with maybe some latitude on SUSE's (sp?) part? I've taken some nice(ish) pictures that work well for me as backgrounds and was wondering.
First it has to be distributable. Second it should be SUSE related (Not Suze as in Suze Randall. :-) Thirdly I believe that just one or two backgrounds are included each time and only to go specificaly with the SUSE theme. The rest might be default. Just guestimating here. More on http://en.opensuse.org/Buttons%2C_Icons%2C_Themes_%26_Wallpapers
Or do I just submit them to kde-look.org and hope someone likes them :)
That would be the best place to go as well as to http://art.gnome.org/ unless it is specific for one. The place where I get my backgrounds from (aside from specificaly looking for them) is news:alt.binaries.pictures.wallpaper and also http://www.skins.be -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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houghi wrote:
That would be the best place to go as well as to http://art.gnome.org/ unless it is specific for one. The place where I get my backgrounds from (aside from specificaly looking for them) is news:alt.binaries.pictures.wallpaper and also http://www.skins.be
could it be a good idea to ask users to give wallpapers here? http://en.opensuse.org/Wallpaper jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 23:09, houghi wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:49:22PM +0100, Pete Connolly wrote:
I couldn't get to the particular picture in the URL, but your sister-in-law takes some excellent pictures!
Neither did I and who is this sister-in-law yu are talking about?
Charlie was saying in his email that his wallpaper photo was taken by his sister-in-law.
As a general question, is there a policy for passing pictures to SUSE for inclusion as default backgrounds, or is this mainly down to the Gnome and KDE people, with maybe some latitude on SUSE's (sp?) part? I've taken some nice(ish) pictures that work well for me as backgrounds and was wondering.
First it has to be distributable. Second it should be SUSE related (Not Suze as in Suze Randall. :-) Thirdly I believe that just one or two backgrounds are included each time and only to go specificaly with the SUSE theme. The rest might be default. Just guestimating here. More on http://en.opensuse.org/Buttons%2C_Icons%2C_Themes_%26_Wallpapers
Fair enough, I thought as much. We don't want too much bloat, and there are plenty of places to submit them to.
Or do I just submit them to kde-look.org and hope someone likes them :)
That would be the best place to go as well as to http://art.gnome.org/ unless it is specific for one.
Nope, nothing specific to either Gnome or KDE Cheers Pete
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