Hello Máirín,
On 2020-07-15 10:17 a.m., Máirín Duffy wrote:
- Prepping for Beta
This is what we have to do by Aug 18 - basically get that wallpaper idea polished enough for shipment into beta. Ideally we'd have 4 versions of it, with different colors, for the Fedora time of day wallpaper feature. Here is an example: https://www.thetestspecimen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fedora-29-dawn-da...
We also have four size formats for the wallpaper typically:
- Normalish 3840 x 3072 (5:4)
- Standard 4096 x 3072 (4:3)
- TV-Wide 4200 x 2363 (16:9)
- Wide 4200 x 2625 (16:10)
Some changes I would like to address:
Starting from Fedora 32, Standard format will be the only size to work on because majority of modern desktop environments automatically adjusts the wallpaper to the corresponding screen ratio depending of the settings. The rationale is to simplify the workflow so no more extra Normalish, TV-Wide and Wide formats in addition of less size of packaging file. =) The inspiration was from GNOME team after looking at the functionality of the time of day Adwatia wallpaper.
As part of system change for Fedora 33, time of day for the default wallpaper will be used as default [1]. As a maintainer, I found out it was not the case since Fedora 7 Moonshine.
Reference:
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultAnimatedBackground
Sincerely,