[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

[jmak]

Remember, about 7-8 years back, during the bubble, when flash became
the coolest tool to build websites? Every self-respecting company, at
that time, wanted a flash intro for its web site, with elaborate
animations and music. When visiting a site, first you had to watch the
movie, otherwise you weren't able entering the site. After a while
this thing started irritating more and more people and as a result the
'skip intro' buttons started appearing as an escape route for those
not in the mood of watching the movie. Today, one hardly sees any of
those intros, probably because companies have realized that they are
more of nuisances than  attractions.
I have the feeling that transparency will meet with the same fate as
the flash intro. Now, it is cool and fun but it has plenty of
drawbacks. Disregarding their resource  hungriness, they diminish text
legibility and in general make the desktop look more chaotic and
disorganized as really is. Probably, during the course of time the
effect will find its way into the general scheme of things, whatever
it might turn out to be. Similarly to the flash that ultimately ended
up as a web advertising tool.
Anyhow, this is just my 2 c.

J. Mak

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