[ubuntu-art] New member/ Gutsy wallpaper observation.

[Andreas Nilsson]

xl cheese wrote:
> I joined because I was not sure if the ubuntu art team was aware of 
> the commotion regarding the gutsy default wallpaper.  The main 
> complaints are:
> -It's too dark
> -Grainy
> -Looks too much like Vista
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=555477
> <http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us>
Hi!
As a background pictures are so simple to make, I'm afraid you will 
never reach a consensus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed

"Parkinson shows how you can go into the board of directors and get 
approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic 
power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up 
in endless discussions.

Parkinson explains that this is because an atomic plant is so vast, so 
expensive and so complicated that people cannot grasp it, and rather 
than try, they fall back on the assumption that somebody else checked 
all the details before it got this far. Richard P. Feynmann gives a 
couple of interesting, and very much to the point, examples relating to 
Los Alamos in his books.

A bike shed on the other hand. Anyone can build one of those over a 
weekend, and still have time to watch the game on TV. So no matter how 
well prepared, no matter how reasonable you are with your proposal, 
somebody will seize the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he 
is paying attention, that he is /here/."
(from 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING)

I would prefer to trust Kenneth on his decision.
- Andreas