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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: wallpapers
From:       Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-07-23 21:43:25
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> I think maybe if we get people to contribute some high quality scans of
> photos we could get some photo style backgrounds. I think thwe current
> wallpapers are great, but it is true that there isn't quite the same mix
> as before. We have people from a wide range of countries here, I think
> it
> would be possible to get some fantastic photos.

Sorry, but photos usually don't make good wallpapers as they show 
real-world-images which are quite irritating most of the time as they 
pick the users attention to the background and make the user make
them mix up with the content he is working on. Therefore some 
people can't work on tiles like ruines.jpg although they look 
quite good.
Furthermore nontiled photos are usually memory-hogs. Therefore we 
use tiles only right now. And getting good tiles which consist of 
photos and are not too importunately is quite hard.

I agree that we should try to get *some* photomade tiles and some 
realistic textures for wallpapers (marble, paper, leather, etc.).
Due to the fact that a huge amount of people do like propaganda-tiles
(and some of them do NOT know where to get them unless they have 
found the URL of propaganda) we should have some of these 
tiles  in KDE2, too (Bowie gave us permission to include these and 
asked me at the same time for inclusion when I asked him).

Greetings, 
Tackat


> Rich.
> 
> > >
> > > Rik
> >
> > I vote for creating kde-flames@kde.org now. Rikkus: Second time ...
> >
> > Tackat
> 
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