On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:26:17AM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hey folks, > > In case you didn't catch it on planet Fedora, I have been > running an informal survey of the desktop backgrounds folks > are using (getting responses from both Fedora and GNOME > community members.) > > I've gotten a LOT of replies, check them out: > http://mihmo.livejournal.com/68292.html > > So far as I've been able to read through them, they seem to > fit into 3 categories: > > - #1 stick with the default (distro default or desktop env > default) or flat solid color > - #2 personalized no matter what (photos they took > themselves or photos of family members) or a photo of an > interest hobby (racecars, bikes, hometown, etc) > - #3 beautiful pictures of nature, usually with some depth > > So I think as we are still thinking about our approach to > F11, we should think about these wallpapers that folks are > actually using and try to create something that they will > like having as their desktop background as much as possible. > #2 would be impossible for us to do, but #3 we can most > certainly do. > > Looking at it this way, maybe for the wallpaper we could > have a beautiful landscape with maybe some Grecian elements, > maybe ruins of Grecian columns or a garden stylized in a > Grecian way (maybe with some sculpture) and maybe we could > follow the Golden Mean in laying out the elements of the image. > > What do you think? > I knew you did that for a reason. ;) However with the Grecian columns and stuff we need to be careful of not looking "ancient", as some might say, but instead looking functional, practical, etc. -- Ian Weller <ianweller@xxxxxxxxx> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams
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