[Design-team] Final wallpaper selection

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 21:16 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi Matthias!
> 
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 21:00 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > I would not really recommend making the size a factor in deciding the
> > background. In the big scheme of things 2M or 3M is not going to decide
> > whether we fit or not, considering that the outstanding change to dracut
> > initrds alone will make us grow by another 15M. 
> 
> How much space do you think is it reasonable for us to expect to have
> for the artwork?
> 
> One of the proposed wallpapers is 2MB in size... we'd need a widescreen
> version as well, which might bring us to 4MB at a minimum. Then the
> various splashes do take up space, depending, I'm not sure maybe 1-2 MB.
> I'm not sure how much we've taken up in the past but it seems that
> things are tighter than ever - do you think 6MB is a reasonable amount?

Here is what the F11 backgrounds took (not including minor things like
splashes etc):

4392138 leonidas-backgrounds-lion-dual
21997 leonidas-backgrounds
1472733 leonidas-backgrounds-common

Seems to be a little below 6MB altogether.
If you stay within the same ballpark we should be fine.