[Bug 44339] Re: Regression in usplash artwork

[Paul Sladen]

Ideally it should probably be produced to an aspect ratio half-way
between 4:3 and 8:5 (eg. 16:11, or working with a base image of 640x440)
so that it looks vaguely correct both:

  a) when strectched to a VGA screen
  b) when centred on an LCD display or VMware screenshot

The biggest reason why the current artwork doesn't work is that there
are too many transitions of colours;  really there is only space for one
gradient of colours (eg. brown->black).  In the case this new artwork it
attempts to use:

  black->white
  orange->black/gray/white
  yellow->black/gray/white
  red->black/gray/white

which is far too much to dither and provide immediate colours for when
there are only 14 palette entries.

The new Kubuntu one is very good and was done by somebody who understood
the restrictions of the environment;  It uses 3 shades of blue in total,
all of which effectively share the same gradient (blue->black).

Vipper550: your artwork looks much better.  If there /has/ to be a
change I hope it's considered.  At this moment in time, I think we'd be
better reverting to the breezy artwork.

This would have the effect of promoting the image of
stability/continuity and that we don't change things unless we can do
for the better.

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Regression in usplash artwork
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44339