Comments on: Default Wallpaper

By: James

James — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:34:33 +0000

It really doesn’t look all that great, imho. I’m not sure why, but it’s not a very nice, calming backdrop.

I’m using the Gilouche GTK and Metacity themes, a clean desktop with no icons, and the Green Grass wallpaper from here: http://www.socksoff.co.uk/walls05.html.

(Fwiw, I think Green Grass would make an amazing default wallpaper if you could track down the author and get permission. )

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Stopped Clock Blog — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:46:03 +0000

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By: Calum

Calum — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:01:05 +0000

I guess the GNOME marketing team should also have some input on this– i.e. what defines the GNOME ‘brand’, and how does the default background image help to project it? (N.B. This doesn’t mean I think it should have a dirty big GNOME logo on it!)

Of course, it should also look best in conjunction with our default theme, and for me personally it doesn’t really work on that level– I think the background colour somewhat overpowers the icons.

By: Eduardo José Moreira

Eduardo José Moreira — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:46:42 +0000

This wallpaper is very nice, though I agree with jprieur: the left part is a bit bright, and my icons get somewhat lost there. Maybe Jimmac could balance the image in this respect.

Otherwise I find it original and not so much Vista-alike. Vista has “too perfect” backgrounds for my taste, and this one is more elegant and not so overdone.

Oh, and I like the green tones used: relaxing, nature-minded colors. Seems I like greens: my wallpaper is usually a single color, rgb 1,150,117.

Anyway it would be nice having two other versions, one in blue and another in earth tones (soil, sand) -too much work, I guess-.

By: Vincent Paeder

Vincent Paeder — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:42:27 +0000

I think it’s too blurry in a way, there’s no particularity that makes you think you should have that instead of a colour gradient. It’d be nice to have sharper, or a sharper, feature(s) somewhere that makes it feel different.

By: SchAmane

SchAmane — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:10:47 +0000

i would never use such wallpapper… with all respect to jimmac, i saw better wallpappers produced by him.

By: jcs

jcs — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:42:18 +0000

I rather like it, although I’m not sure it fits with the clearlooks shade of gray. Goes more nicely with darker themes. Perhaps if the brightness were increased and the contrast decreased?

By: Gianni

Gianni — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:55:14 +0000

«Does it count if it makes me sick after 4-5 minutes of just looking at it?»

That’s not far from it here too. But I’m not sick, just disliking the blur style.

FYI I’m using no desktop icons at all, may be caused by this.

By the way, I just discovered Webilder.org, it seems to be the right answer for gnome wallpapers. May be you can try to integrate this into gnome. It will definitely fix the default wallpaper problem.

http://www.webilder.org/

Another thing, for people that want their personnal color on any background, it would be cool to include an alpha wallpaper, like this one from Andrea Cimitan:

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7593/backgroundalphapw9.png

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:53:09 +0000

it suffers from the same problem as 90% of wallpapers out there: it is too bright overall, and because of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457456 and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317764, the icon text is really difficult to read.

I think this wallpaper needs usability work. You could also look at the Babaorum wallpaper suite, especially the dark blue one that I believe is the most balanced and less intrusive: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=48742

By: evil_core

evil_core — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:55:29 +0000

Its really nice to see on this blog another person from PLD like Patrys. I also agree with him. It was looking horrible for me in small liferea small window, and much more worser in 1:1 scale, it hurts my eyes especially with my dark theme.
Jakub: I really love your artwork, for years I was using jimmac cursors(now Vanilla-DMZ), now im using Tango and tangoished GNOME icons, but this wallpaper is much more worser for me, than any other that was shipped with GNOME. It definetly should be some vector graphic (or translucent png), or sth that will utilize gtk colors. Cow and Clouds was wallpapers(maybe not really wallpaper) that was really neutral and good looking with every GTK theme and color scheme. And simple svg files dont take too much space, so I dont see any real reason(especially when allbody has >=120GB hdd for pr0n and warez to ship only one wallpaper, because theres not one that will fit evereybody.
Sorry for bugs, but I’m not native english speaker.