On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 15:04, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Thursday 31 March 2011 14:56:48 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Thursday 31 March 2011 16:44:46 Will Stephenson wrote:
And please consider helping in the artwork selection process next release, or recruiting someone arty who shares your tastes - obviously, if only twentysomething college students make and choose the artwork, go figure who the artwork will please...
I like the openSUSE artwork starting from 11.2 (never seen previous rereases). I thought it was designed by professional designers.
It was, up until 11.3 when Jimmac left Novell, leaving the openSUSE BU without a fulltime icons and wallpaper employee. 11.4's artwork was designed by Ivan Cukic who is, as far as I know, a twentysomething IT student and Nepomuk (boo! ;)) and Plasma Activities (wassatforthen? ;)) hacker, who happens to make very nice wallpapers on the side.
Choosing a default walpaper and other artwork is a thankless job. One group of people will like it or be OK with it, and the next will find it "ugly". I don't think there is any true pleasing everyone. The current default is OK, but I can see the point that some people have with it being odd. At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking "what's wrong with the display?" :-) It is unique an different, and there's nothing wrong with that. it's part of the openSUSE identity... being different. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org