Hoary : where have Gnome's new wall papers gone ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> My vote would be to settle on 6 or 7 GOOD screen savers, in addition
> to a "blank"/EnergyStar screen and maybe a "time" or "message"
> text-only screen (there is a *lot* of junk in the screen savers
> collection) and perhaps a dozen or so decent default desktop "wall
> papers" (pictures), including one or two recognisably "Linux" ones, a
> few (one of which ought to be the default) Ubuntu-specific ones, and
> perhaps a few generic "anyone on any OS could use these wall papers
> WITHOUT making a political or philosophical statement.
> 
> It has always been a mystery to me as to why a "slim" OS like Ubuntu
> comes with sooooo many screen savers -- yeah, they probably don't take
> up a whole lot of room, but they are a waste of precious KB in terms
> of the single-CD installed distro. And, they also fly in the face of
> "simplicity" -- too much choice which in turn provides no value to the
> users. If a "power user" has a specific screen saver that they use as
> a UTILITY they'll have the knowledge needed to install it anyway. If
> they just "like" a specific screen saver because it looks cool,
> they'll be able to install it from universe if they're that attached
> to it.
> 
> There's no real functional loss by paring down the screen saver
> collection, and, arguably there's a *gain* in functionality since it
> opens up the use of the screen saver to more people.
> 
> Eric.

Ah, we agree 200% then, maybe we will be heared :-)

Vince