New backgrounds for GNOME 2.24
August 27th, 2008
We chose the winners from the background competition at GUADEC and the new backgrounds have been integrated into the gnome-backgrounds package. Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to the winners. All the backgrounds are released under the GNU GPL, so we encourage anyone who feels they could improve the backgrounds with any tweaks to submit your finished results back to gnome-backgrounds!
Abstract
- Silk.png, Spring.png, Waves.png: Patryk Zawadzki
- Flow.png, Gulp.png: Daniel Galleguillos
Nature
- Aqua.jpg: Charles Barbin
- Blinds.jpg: Lennart Poettering
- Dunes.jpg: Marco Cogoni
- FreshFlower.jpg: Jens Ansorg
- Garden.jpg: Charles Barbin
- GreenMeadow.jpg: Timothy Schellhase, retouched by Lapo Calamandrei
- LadyBird.jpg: Charles Barbin
- OpenFlower.jpg: Garrett LeSage
- RainDrops.jpg: “blackcombwhistler07″
- Storm.jpg: Sergey Nazarov
- TwoWings.jpg: Charles Barbin
- Wood.jpg: Jean-François Fortin Tam
- YellowFlower.jpg: Charles Barbin
Download available here: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-backgrounds/2.23/
August 27th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
[...] chose the new backgrounds for 2.24 at GUADEC, but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago we got round to integrating them into the [...]
August 27th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Finally a Background set!
August 28th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Top notch, as in 2.22
August 28th, 2008 at 1:46 am
GNOME 2.24 中的新壁纸
GNOME 项目团队于日前在 GUADEC 会议上决胜出了 GNOME 2.24 壁纸征集活动的获奖者，并将这些新的壁纸整合到了 gnome-backgrounds 包中。这些壁纸的风格以抽象和自然类为主，发布在 GNU GPL 许可之下。…
August 28th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Truly beautiful backgrounds.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
A nice selection I think.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Woohoo! Gnome comes with backgrounds now!
I see you have two that are merely a color variation of each other– I submit that the Right Way to do that is with an .svg with only greyscale and alpha, with the background color being painted behind it, forming the end background. –cause that looks great, but my favorite color is deep green….
August 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Oh, ok, I got the backgrounds, and it turns out that /is/ the way they are. Great job!
August 30th, 2008 at 2:44 am
The nature wallpapers are great but the abstract ones could use more contrast and detail.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Great
When will gnome-session splash be updated? Thanks a lot
September 4th, 2008 at 2:57 am
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am
A brownish background is missing - Mark S. will freak out
Too bad that we therefore will not see these nice backgrounds in Ubuntu….
September 6th, 2008 at 6:19 am
[...] wurden die Ergebnisse des Wettbewerbs für GNOME 2.24-Hintergrundbilder, die Ende August vorgestellt wurden, in das Paket integriert. Diese sind laut Vincent Untz durchaus gelungen und [...]
September 7th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Happy to see that my photos will be part of Gnome 2.23 wallpapers !
Thanks a lot !
Regards,
Charles Barbin
September 7th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the whole point of wallpapers it to not have contrast and detail
September 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Seeing the high standard of all of the winning wallpapers, I can certainly understand why mine weren’t picked :). Nice to see some good wallpapers finally integrated into Gnome!