Should the default wallpaper of 8.10 be changed?

[Martin Owens]

That's the wallpaper for Ibex? Ew.

Not that I care, more people will start using my advanced backgrounds
program to change their background to something interesting. But
still, how bland.

Regards, Martin

2008/10/3 Savvas <vicedar at gmail.com>:
> I know it's somehow off-topic, however I believe the looks of a new
> release should be taken into great consideration. After all, it's
> important for the new release to look decent in order for the loco
> teams to be able to present it. Does anyone know whether
> /usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png will stay as the final
> wallpaper ?
>
> I don't know about everyone else, but I can imagine the look of the
> crowd at the release party, when a team representative orates about
> Ubuntu and Intrepid Ibex, and finally unvails the live CD environment
> presenting a new release with that wallpaper...
> We have a lot of nicer wallpapers in the wiki artwork though.
>
> This can't definitely compete with Fedora's 10 wallpaper:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Solar
>
> Preview of the current wallpaper (default in beta release):
> http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs132&d=08405&f=warty-final-ubuntu288.png
> Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/+bug/276594
>
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