On 07/29/2009 06:32 PM, Steven Moix wrote:
As Nicu requested on his blog [1], I'm providing my very own
personal
feedback about the wallpapers displayed on [2]. I'll give my top 5 (in
no particular order) with comments:
Thanks Steven for starting the ball rolling on this. There is also some
(not much, I am not that popular) feedback gathering on my blog comments:
http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/07/artwork-for-fedora-12-alpha.html
* Tatica's "four foundations mosaic" has a clean
design, not too
overloaded. It's one of my favourite designs, but it has one flaw: it's
a great but pretty generic wallpaper when it comes to the Constantine theme.
It is also one of the very few close to what we said is wanted for a
default: vector format. Still has a less-than-ideal size for tiles (too
close to the icons size) and my use some "bling".
* Tatica's "Pruebas" design is great, the buildings
take a bit too much
space but well, it's an alpha design. It fits the Constantine theme very
well.
* Samuele's "4Flowers" is clean, simple and beautiful. It should be a
bit more "Fedora blue" IMO.
But we want the pack of 4 additional wallpapers to bring a breath of
fresh air, so if it goes there being less blue is not a problem.
* Nicu/Mo's Underwater mosaic designs are the most generic (in a
good
sense) and best design ideas IMO. They fit an oriental theme, they fit
the Fedora colours and are not too overloaded.
I was amazed about how Mo modified the photos to an impressive result.
However, I found the result a bit too blurry and wondered if this is
because I resized the photos (reduced with and height in half so they
don't take too much space on the web hosting and can be downloaded
reasonably, while still having a large resolution).
Then I had to study the GIMP source to find which photos were used
exactly (wow! intense photomanip there Mo, hats off!). If really big
(12MP) photos are needed, I have them available.
* Jayme Ayre's blue Constantine also has a great potential. It
fits the
Fedora colours, it's not too overloaded but it might have a
political/religious connotation?
I am not worried about the connotations, I just find it too direct but I
also like the colors a lot.
I didn't chose most of the other themes for one simple reason:
too
overloaded.
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nicu ::
http://nicubunu.ro ::
http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/
photography:
http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/
my Fedora stuff:
http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/