[Design-team] F15 Wallpapers Status Update

[Onyeibo Oku]

Updated my F15 test machine.  Nice Supplementary Backgrounds there... 
very impressive.

About the Default wallpaper:
I agree with you mostly.  Is the file still huge?  Something tells me we 
might get better results if we take the raster route (as against vector 
drawings -- in finalizing).  We are dealing with nature and nature 
presents a lot of challenging complexity.


On 03/22/2011 11:36 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).
>
> 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 :(
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> References:
> [1] http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/F15/sky-background3.svg
>
>
>
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