Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion

[Luke Kuhn]

In my experience any wallpaper must not have a tendency to hide icons on the  desktop, except of course for those users who do not set Nautilus (2 or 3) to draw icons on the desktop. I have played with a great many wallpapers but always go back to the old KDE3.5 "soft-green"(with my customized UI based on Ubuntustudio, theme little changed since Hardy) The reason is this: It is easy on the eyes, does not kill sleep afterwards at night with sky blue, and does not hide icons. When I used actual forest photographs the icons disappeared into the busy underbrush.
I looked at some of the other wallpapers in this thread and the "soft-blue" as I call it with ubuntustudio logo looked like one that would work well for a lot of people and fit the blue theme.  One work on blue wallpapers: according to sleep scientists, they are excellent for people working in the morning but will delay sleep long after shutdown for us night folks, as light blue is the color the eye uses to signal "daytime." That was why I stopped using blue wallpapers. On the other hand, for folks in short winter days there may be nothing better.

> Just as a general observation: I like the simplicity, as I believe the
> current wallpaper is too busy/distracting (as in, it gets visually in
> the way to using the computer). So, style-wise, I like the direction
> of non-obstructive simplicity.
> 
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