[ubuntu-art] Re ady for Xubuntu Wallpaper Submissions

[John Baer]

2010/12/9 Simon Steinbeiß <simon.steinbeiss at elfenbeinturm.at>

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:45:44 +0100
> Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> > From
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0007_Xubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper :
> >
> > "The Xubuntu palette has been completely blue, so far.
> >
> > A monotone color scheme as such sends a message of uniformity,
> > stableness and eventually even shyness, indecision and paranoia. It does
> > not speak of energy, movement, diversity ...
> >
> > The wallpaper will have to go well with the panels, windows and icons
> > (as far as they appear on the desktop). Its use of color has to support
> > the impression of lightness and performance, without becoming a
> > distraction in day-to-day use. Aside of this, there is no predefined,
> > required palette for the wallpaper."
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm currently working on the theme for Natty (links and some info to be
> found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Natty). Thorsten and
> Charlie pointed me to the ongoing discussion here, so I thought I'd add my
> 2cents.
>
> First I think that it would be helpful to have some palette, even if only
> for inspiration. I have worked on the palette for greybird for some time, I
> wouldn't say it's written in stone, but I don't think I'd like to change it
> drastically. Up to now I've only gotten very little specific feedback, so
> that would be one thing I'd appreciate. Please be as specific as you can be,
> stuff like "it looks dull" isn't very helpful/constructive criticism :)
>
> The icon theme I'm currently working on (Faenza-xfce) is just a contender
> for the well-tested elementary theme we had for the last few cycles. So
> maybe don't focus too much on a specific icon theme when designing the
> wallpaper (or at least take into account that it could be either of the two
> themes).
>
> Whilst I agree that the wallpaper doesn't have to be blue, I'd like to
> mention that currently the theme (greybird) - even though mainly grey-ish
> and more conservative-looking than the previous bluebird - has blue
> highlights.
>
> That's it for now from my side for now,
> Simon
>
> PS: Here's a screenshot for the picture I currently use as a backdrop, just
> to show that the theme works very well with a not-totally-blue wallpaper :)
> http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/2380/the_beach.html
>
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Simon,

Posting your wallpaper image to DeGraeve results in the following palette.

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php?q=http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/Decbb444/02380_thebeach_1280x1024.jpg,0e4064ceaf69bf9e5acbccb85a7f96,005cb9ffdf95f7cd77fdfdfb6ba7ce

Nice!

John
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