[ubuntu-art] Suggestion for more wallpapers -- Re: Whats Up with This?

[Brian Fleeger]

Salene -- Thanks, you are right to point out it is not art related.  

However, the two areas I point out have been the object of many legitimate critiques in the past from many press reviews of Ubuntu and in many a forum.  I do not think I am the first person to notice this.  From a design perspective, sometimes what you leave out is more important than what you include.


Ken -- you sit at many tables and wear many hats; is cleaning up excess material something you could/would pass on to relevent parties?  If this in not within your range of authority, that is okay.  My only intention is to make Ubuntu a better end product.

Regards,
Brian


----- Original Message ----
From: Salane Ashcraft <salane89 at gmail.com>
To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 7:33:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion for more wallpapers -- Re: Whats Up with This?

These things are not art related... ou would have to bring this up with the other development teams if we decided to include more wallpapers.

Salane


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Brian Fleeger <brianfleeger at yahoo.com> wrote:

Well, other than the outdated themes, there are two other major areas that I can recommend trimming some fat: the massive overstock of built-in screensavers; and the bloat of outdated games.  
 
Sorry to say it, but when was the last time anybody really needed to change their screensavers avery day for two years and never repeat? ;)  But seriously, most of those screensavers and games are pretty ugly and/or not fun.  I can't think the space might not be better used elsewhere, like including better wallpapers, which people do change frequently.
 
Anybody else want to chime in on areas that could be trimmed?
 
Regards,
Brian Fleeger



----- Original Message ----
From: Kenneth Wimer <kwwii at ubuntu.com>
To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 6:44:41 AM
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion for more wallpapers -- Re: Whats Up with This?

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 05:07:37 Brian Fleeger wrote:
> Ravindra makes a good point -- each release should have a better selection
> of alternate wallpapers.  I posted a bunch of open source photographs a few
> days back on the "Desktop Background Submissions" page, all taken from the
> WikiMedia site.  I selected each of them for their inherent mixture of
> brown with other lively colors (reds, blues, yellows, etc).  Incidentally,
> they would all look good with the dark theme in Alpha 1, or New Wave (the
> next heir apparent).  Though I include the link to the web sources below
> each photo, the links don't display properly and are only viewable by going
> into "edit" mode in the wiki.  I hope the art team will consider including
> them, or at least the idea of encouraging open source photography in
> general. Regards,
> Brian Fleeger

Until now the biggest problem with getting more pics in has been the size of 
the CD image. In Hardy we included one extra pic and I was hoping on 
including one or two more this time as well.

I'd also like to go through the gnome themes and remove all the older, 
outdated ones and include some nicer, newer stuff...perhaps that would be a 
subject on which everyone could vote.

--
Ken

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