[Mageia-artwork] Mageia 1 Background

[Donald Stewart]

On 28 April 2011 22:42, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 April 2011 22:19, Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> there was a bit of bustle today because of the background image.
>> The current one is to bright, which doesn't work well with a light taskbar and
>> also with the white font.
>>
>> The idea now, is to replace the background with the blue pattern AlexN used
>> for the plymouth and gfxboot theme. This one:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5425490722/in/photostream
>>
>> This for, we get a uniformed look form the installer, over boot process, to
>> the desktop.
>>
>> Are there any complains about it or (better) ideas?
>>
>>
>> Furthermore, I've created an extra wallpaper, which matchs the theme of our
>> website:
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LF2rMMH7tlU7M3bzQ6CCxsWFIzFZ2BaC21XF10gWwzE?feat=directlink
>> or, a bit darker (my favorite):
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/46amsd_WQUxCDhGI5Vl7TcWFIzFZ2BaC21XF10gWwzE?feat=directlink
>>
>> In action it looks like this:
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xG8zqXYN3rz32UfgojgDgcWFIzFZ2BaC21XF10gWwzE?feat=directlink
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thorsten
>>
>> P.S.: In the future we must also have a closer look to the other DEs (GNOME,
>> LXDE, XFCE, ...), which has been nearly forgotten so far.
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>
> TeaAge, I really *really* like the darker one you have made. The one
> that looks like the installer and whatnot was getting me down just
> working on it (you may have noticed).
>
> Is everyone ok if we go for the dark one for dm splash and background?
> If so, can you post the svg file and I can get the necessary bit
> chopped up and added.
>
> Either way, we can get the theme done and ready for release tomorrow
> with only minor bug fixes left if any at all.
>
> Gnome and LXDE havn't been forgotton, gnome just uses default bg and
> spash was dropped by upstream. LXDE doesn't have a splash, and ahmad78
> fixed the bg a while back.
> Not sure on XFCE though, I haven't used it in years, will check to see
> if it has a splash/needing anything done.
>
> Cheers, Donald.
>

Just installed XFCE, no splash and default bg is picked up fine, it
looks nice so all is good there. Thanks to however did the import.