[ubuntu-art] Jaunty Wallpaper

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Thursday 12 February 2009 21:43:22 Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/2/12 Kenneth Wimer <kwwii at ubuntu.com>:
> > more information can be found in the attached pdf. A lot of great
> > information was used from the Kyudo project
>
> I appreciate the "don't copy the competition" and "don't use photos"
> points in the document, .. but..
>
> If you take a look at the latest (7) version of Windows you'll see
> that one of the built in themes uses some generic photos. I assume
> (but don't know) they are localised because the photos I see (being a
> british person) are very "british". Hills, valleys, streams, stone
> circles, cottages and so on. On the machine at work running Windows 7
> there have been a fair number of comments from people passing about
> how striking the images are, nobody seems to have paid any attention
> to other desktop components or furniture.

And I'd bet that a lot of work into making those photos as great as they are. 
That is my whole point. It is easy to go somewhere amazing and take a pretty 
good photo. It is something else to make it an amazing desktop wallpaper. 
There is no need for people to spam the list with the photos of their last 
vacation (unless you really mean it!).

> Maybe photos aren't _such_ a bad thing, especially if they're
> localised, and does _everyone_ have to see one single wallpaper?

I am all for including a larger set of really good wallpapers, including many 
photos. I think there are plans for it underway.

--
Kenneth