[ubuntu-us-in] Ubuntu-us-in Digest, Vol 44, Issue 12

[Ryan J Hoots]

On 01/26/2012 12:11 PM, Jason Corfman wrote:
> I still think Ubuntu's best default wallpaper was 8.04 Hardy Heron. 
> That one just looked cool.
>
> But I agree, wallpapers are easy to change, and it typically is one of 
> the first things I do to customize my computer (no matter what OS I'm 
> on... although I kept the Heron for a while).
>
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:59 AM, DJ Gregory 
> <darrell.e.gregory at gmail.com <mailto:darrell.e.gregory at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     If you want a good comprehensive site to search for wall papers,
>     try wallbase.cc
>
>     I noticed that they didn't change or change much recently, but it
>     doesn't bother me.  It's always one of the first things that gets
>     changed anyway
>
>
>     On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Charlie Luna
>     <war.tribe.mc at gmail.com <mailto:war.tribe.mc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         My assumption is that the ubuntu creators assume that we end
>         users could change the wallpaper to whatever we want. Having a
>         default set of wallpapers is ok but you really aren't limited
>         to those. I've scoured photobucket, and even done searches for
>         wallpaper to change mine. Its not hard to do. I know that
>         gnome-look.org <http://gnome-look.org> has some wallpapers too
>         along with many other things. You can even take pictures and
>         drop those into the pictures folder and use those if you like.
>
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>               1.  Default Wallpaper in Ubuntu 10.10-11.10 (Ryan Hoots)
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>             Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:46:24 -0500
>             From: Ryan Hoots <overlord at ryanhoots.com
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>             Subject: [ubuntu-us-in] Default Wallpaper in Ubuntu
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>             Anybody else wonder why the default Ubuntu wallpaper
>             hasn't changed since
>             version 10.10, and version 10.04 used one very similar?
>             The other wallpaper
>             that are distributed with Ubuntu have changed, why not use
>             one of them?
>
>             Has there been an official reason for this? Maybe they're
>             only getting new
>             default wallpaper every year rather than every release
>             (that would be a
>             bummer).
>
>             Regards,
>             Ryan Hoots
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Yeah, the 8.04 wallpaper was good. I even made a blue version because I 
didn't like the orange theme...
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