[ubuntu-art] Wallpaper

[julian]

..on Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:18:27AM -0800, Troy James Sobotka wrote:
> 
> Could you point me to your globally accepted reference on
> computing?  It would be a very useful addition to my library.
> I would love to finally learn how desktops are actually used
> or experienced.

you are being sarcastic and diametric, both of which are unfortunate to the 
ends of friendly and/or useful discussion. 

nonetheless it is worth mentioning that there is no such thing as a 
grand-unified-theory of usability. there is, however public opinion and in the case of 
there being someone with special needs, a special theme to cater for them.

there have been some great mockups on this list. there are certainly 
some which are outside the realm of reason in that they are not technically 
feasible with GTK/Gnome. of those mockups that we programmers understand to 
be feasible and practical, we would do well to ask for public opinion and work
from there: that will surely humble any canonical treatise on Design, a topic 
i studied for some years myself.

i might not like elephant skin on my desktop but if the majority of the Ubuntu 
using community loves it then it most certainly deserves to be the default
wallpaper.

i'd like to see a public poll upon what we - as the ubuntu art team - see as
the most viable wallpapers and themes proposed for 8.06 so far. 

if there are people that haven't proposed a theme or wallpaper to this
list, but have work that they think is great, then we can point them to this this
list from the poll. their ideas can go up for vote next time..

thoughts?

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julian oliver
http://julianoliver.com
http://selectparks.net