Apparently there’s a new mailing list for release reminders, so here’s a late tarball for gnome-backgrounds in the usual place. Just a few translation updates, nothing more exciting.
I am still undecided on whether to gather together some new backgrounds for the GNOME 2.12 release, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know.
I find this one really nice. It’s made in 3d, and it would be nice to let 3d artists make some contributions to GNOME too.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=25950 (CC-licence)
On a sidenote, perhaps it would be nice to have some svg-wallpapers, now that librsvg is really good and all.
– Andreas
This svg wallpaper is nice.
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/images/wallpapers/waves.svg
I was going to ask about SVG Wallpapers too, it seems like a great idea but I cannot understand why it hasn’t happened yet. A lot of the abstract artwork people use for wallpapers looks so much like vector graphics I’m sure the idea must have occured to a lot of people (every time I see the mandrake screensaver artwork I wonder if it is available as SVG). I was thinking SVG Wallpapers could be made once at 1600×1200 and scaled up/down cleanly and efficiently as needed.
Perhaps the Artists of OpenClipart.org encouraged to create some wallpapers
http://openclipart.org
and the Inkscapers at Deviant Art have been creating lots of great work for the Inkscape splash screens so they might also be interested in creating SVG wallpapers.
I think there were some SVG wallpapers in gnome-backgrounds at one point, but I’m not quite sure where they ended up. A lot of backgrounds were taken out with the 2.10 release though when it was tidied up.
I think there may be SVG versions of several of the “translucent” wallpapers, so I’ll have a look into getting hold of them and replacing the PNG versions where appropriate.