[ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

[Michiel Sikma]

Op 30-jun-2006, om 12:22 heeft Joao Inacio het volgende geschreven:

> On 6/30/06, Michiel Sikma <michiel at thingmajig.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I encourage people to work on as high resolutions as their RAM
>> will allow. I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide
>> regions to ensure that my wallpapers will always, no matter what
>> kinds of strange things will happen, will work on the highest
>> resolutions that are available. That includes the 2560x1600
>> resolution of Apple's 30" inch display. Even if only 0.1% of our
>> userbase has one of those, it sure is impressive that we would
>> support resolutions like that.
>>
>
> Hi,
> Doesn't those kinds of extremely high resolutions cause trouble when
> using wallpapers at very lower res.?  At somewhere along 1024x768, the
> image needs to be scaled a lot, and won't that "distort" too much the
> original detail?
>
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It depends. If you have a lot of tiny or sharp details, they will get  
lost when downscaling. If you stick to the usual and typical type of  
wallpaper that abstract ones usually sport, then there isn't much  
that can get lost.

The only problem is if you downscale to disproportionate sizes, but I  
guess we should, like we always have, just make a widescreen 16:10  
version as well.

Michiel