Karmic saw the first community wallpaper competition and delivered us a beautiful set of photographs for our desktops.
Last cycle’s winners were this cycles judges and everyone has delivered.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the results of the wallpaper competition!
Congratulations to the winners and huge thanks to the judges. I know, from my experience as a judge last time, that the task is neither small nor simple and I would like to thank everyone for their hard work and for making such excellent choices. To the winners, congratulations and thank you for contributing beauty to our lives!
Those look great!
The quality is high, but a lot of people have commented there are too many flower pictures and I would agree. The last batch did a better job at having a varied selection. Speaking of the last batch, I hope it will still be available in a package or something.
Great selection. Is it too late to add whole ton of fog to the pier though? http://www.flickr.com/photos/qiuty/4433656987/
These are hopeless. What I want from a wallpaper is:
– the name and version of the OS somewhere on the screen, so even after using a system for a while I can see at once which of the many systems I have installed, I am actually running!
– limited range of tones and brightness, so that desktop icons don’ t get lost on the screen.
Don’t leave these choices to people with no design experience!
I have packaged the wallpapers from 9.10 and will see that they are uploaded to universe for easy installation.
I’d be interested to know what wallpapers or backgrounds you are the judges are using on their own systems. While I don’t agree with Ruby that the OS name/version must be displayed on the wallpaper (actually… WTF?), with Karmic I also had problems choosing a picture where icons were still easily visible and the picture was not too bright. This was with Netbook Remix, so there are actually lots of icons displayed on top of the picture.
Ruby, I suggest you implement an overlay that shows the Ubuntu version number, in an intelligently chosen color, over whatever background picture you happen to be using. Baking the version number into the default pictures themselves would be unsuitable for people who don’t need the reminder you need, it wouldn’t work for any pictures other than those in the default set, and it would break when you upgraded to the next Ubuntu version and the background picture didn’t change.
You’re generally right about limiting contrast, but that matters mainly when the contrasting shapes are small. When they’re large (such as the orange flower vs. sky chosen here), they’re much less likely to make any particular desktop item harder to read.
@Ruby & mpt Sounds like a job for Conky
Hvala puno!
Great Pictures! I’m too late 🙂
http://moryc.deviantart.com/art/nUbuntu-Wallpaper-1920×1200-161706162
Fear not @moryc there will be the next release! We will publish all the collection channels after UDS.
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