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Subject:    [kde-artists] on backgrounds
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-04-08 21:26:43
Message-ID: 200704081526.43541.aseigo () kde ! org
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hi all =)

i've been looking at the artwork going around for background on various 
things: games, the log out dialog, krunner, ksysguard's monitors.... the 
background svg's in svn right now tend to be very busy. this is the exact 
opposite of what a background should be. i think it would be good to step 
back for a moment and consider the purpose of backgrounds images.

there is a desire to make beautiful things, but the trick with a background is 
that it needs to stay in the background visually while also being attractive. 
the vertical diagonal "slashes" that we have now in several of these 
background really draws the attention to the background. too much contrast 
between elements in the background is also not good. colours which compete 
with foreground colours (e.g. are similar to or more "brilliant") are also 
not good if they are in the content area (as opposed to the borders). using 
cosmetic pens for borders is also a good idea so that they don't expand to be 
these huge borders when the dialog grows.

perhaps we can come up with some guidelines for backgrounds that can help 
guide creation of such things?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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