[Design-team] The theme

Sat Jan 16 14:11:56 UTC 2010

Hi,
In my view the purpose of the background is to be as neutral as possible, It is a background (neither foreground nor a masterpiece of the top design artwork) and in being so it should stay calm and stress out the icons (actually nothing in the design of the background is functional) and provide a whole image of the system (desktop, icons, frame of the monitor if you want).
Haven't you asked yourself the question why the fireworks for example are done usually in the night, and not for example at noon time against the sun.

Yes, it is personal preference, but if you concentrate on convenience of work and change the backgrounds for testing purposes you could 'feel and find out' which is appropriate and which is not.

By the way if your desktop theme is such that you are not willing to change it for anything else or you could hardly find what to change it for - it's O.K.

If you wonder all the time how change it - it is not exactly O.K. Anyway.

Have a nice day

--- On Fri, 1/15/10, Lukáš Vlček <lukas.vlcek at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Lukáš Vlček <lukas.vlcek at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Design-team] The theme
To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 8:33 PM

Christo,

I think this is very subjective. For example I currently use the following as my background: http://marcuscutler.com/wallpaper-2010-calendar.html

It is bright and contains strong visual elements (even text!).
Moreover, most of the time I do not see it at all because my desktop is filled with many application windows. I see the background just at the beginning of my work and it sets my mood in the morning... so I would not overvalue dark and neutral backgrounds. Also I tend to change background several times during the year (may be four or five times...)

This brings up the most important question: What is the purpose of the background in Fedora?

Users can find tons of neutral backgrounds on the net and switch if
they like (and I believe they do it) but I believe that for background
in Fedora the most important function is to carry a message!

I am quite new to this mail list so this might have been discussed before but I think that there is no reason why F13 shouldn't be shipped with several different backgrounds, they should all stick to specific theme (or carry the same message) but should be variable enough so that different people will find some.

Let's take boring commercial TVs as an example. The program is created in such a way that it tries to attract as many people as possible. But this is not possible and as a result you get the most average program for average people. But each individual is different and in the end the TV program does not fit anybody... 

Regards,
Lukas

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Hristo Petkov <vaeood at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,
This IS made on Fyre and after that on GIMP.

It looks cool but it is not appropriate to be used as background because it's too strong (bright and irritates the eyes when you are looking at it).
The desktop theme should be calm and cool (literally), providing comfort when you are looking at it. (See in the Attachment pls. my current choice).

It is suitable to be used in the 'cap' (the introduction theme) as a flash animation, for example with DTS music (to test the system at starting).

Regards,
Christo Petkov

--- On Fri, 1/15/10, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:

From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>
Subject: Re: [Design-team] The theme
To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org>

Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 10:37 AM

On 01/14/2010 10:34 PM, Hristo Petkov wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Hristo,

> In my view it should be something digital to show the power of the

> computer (and of the operation system).

Have you played with the little app called Fyre? It can produce images 
similar with that.

-- 
nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/

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