This is my wallapaper please a comment, sorry with all i have done. I'm a newbie linux user. On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:14 -1000, Angela Kahealani wrote: > On Sunday 2004-08-29 21:51, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Fedora has its own artwork, Rubi suggested a new desktop background, > > you ranted about the icons on his desktop. > > I did not rant... you passed judgement upon my opinion that it was a > "rant". He asked for OPINIONS, I gave mine. He got what he asked for. > > As for "desktop"s, the best desktop is a simple neutral 50% grey... > it's the ONLY background that will not pollute your color perception of > anything else showing on the screen. If you're not doing serious color > sensitive work, but merely like eye-candy, then you're dealing with > very personal preferences, and have forsaken color correct perception. > If you're editing / color correcting graphics or video, you need a > neutral grey surround, and monitor color temperature calibration and > gamma compensation appropriate for the target medium, either print or > NTSC video or computer video. > > So, artwork on the desktop cannot be taken seriously, as any serious > rational approach can only lead where I went in the previous paragraph. > Therefore, as someone once said: "I don't know much about art, but I do > know what I like". Rubi solicited opinions, and got what he asked for. > Art being non rational and of widely varying tastes, it's no wonder > that most "desktop" software ships with a wide variety of sample > backgrounds, so yeah, go ahead and include it as one of those. Great. > > My desktop will remain a rarely seen neutral 50% grey, mostly only seen > as a surround for Gimp work when I bother to hide all other open > windows in order to obtain collor correct perception of what I'm > editing in the Gimp. > > If Rubi wants an evaluation of the artwork, it would be better to send > it without iconic overlays, allowing us to install and test it on our > own desktops... but as he submitted it to us, it WAS a piece of artwork > that included a TradeMarked icon that could not be conveniently or > easily removed for evaluation of the art on its' own merit. > > Icons invoke associations. Include them in artwork upon which opinions > are requested, and the opinion will be colored with the association > invoked by the icon, just as a non grey surround alters color > perception of an image in a window that does not fill the screen. > > Are we having fun yet? > > -- > Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice; > UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are > private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/ > >
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