[ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

[Michiel Sikma]

Op 30-jun-2006, om 9:58 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven:
>
> There are two things to bear in mind.
>
>  First, space. We are very tight on the install CD. In Dapper we  
> switched to 700MB CD formats but we also introduced a lot of  
> example content that shows what the OS is capable of. more  
> resolution equals more space, so reduces the number of backgrounds  
> that can be included.
>
>  Second, rendering time and memory. Whatever image is up there  
> needs to be scaled (which takes time) and kept in memory (which  
> sucks RAM).
>
> Mark
>

Is that so? I always thought that it kept a cached, maybe even  
uncompressed version of a scaled wallpaper to prevent the rendering  
from being too difficult. Hmm... maybe that's an idea for the  
developers. I'll file a bug report.

Michiel