[Design-team] F15 Wallpapers Status Update

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:36:22 PM Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I finally got around to update the package with wallpapers (after
> conquering my laziness, fruitless waiting for hi-res versions and
> fruitless waiting for selected supplementary wallpapers list).

Martin,
thanks for an update!

> Of course, I need karma to push it into Fedora.
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lovelock-backgrounds-14.91.0-1.fc15
> 
> The included pngs are exported from SVG [1] referenced on wiki as I
> have found no suitably hi-res PNGs. It took ages, I wonder if my laptop
> is just too old... The gnome version appeared on the wiki too late,
> since there are multiple changes in progress over the various places, I
> think I'll have to wait some more with adding it and setting it default
> in gnome.
> 
> Plus, what's up with supplementary wallpapers? Looks like we won't have
> them in beta ;(
> 
> And, I'd like to provide some constructive feedback to the wallpaper
> itself for post-beta polish:
> * The sky and moon are simply awesome, I like them, the stars might
>   need adding some details for higher resolution
> * The bird has some rendering issue, I wasn't able to fix it in the
>   SVG and the presented PNGs are have too small resolution to use
> * The tree looks great from afar, but in detail it looks odd, perhaps
>   adding some detail might help
> * I don't like the mechanical bird, IMHO the one in gnome version looks
>   better
> * The land is IMHO too simplistic and looks more like quick sketch than
>   final design, I'm not sure though how to improve it :(

I use the land for progress icons [1] ;-) with some flowing leaves animation...

[1] http://www.rezza.hofyland.cz/desktops/f15ksplash.png

Jaroslav

> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> References:
> [1] http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/F15/sky-background3.svg

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