revised f9 wallpaper

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 6 21:24:59 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> Hey Luya,
>>
>> Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>>> It looks like a underwater view of the wave. I think these wave needs to
>>> be dynamic i.e spreading toward. It will be also an opportunity to take
>>> advantage of the script Matthias created from Fedora 7 where the wave
>>> varies weekly.  The effects should be subtle.  Máirín, do you have the
>>> svg version? I will give a try tonight.
>>
>> That would be awesome! Give me maybe 45 minutes to clean it up and 
>> I'll send it here. One thing though, when working with this file 
>> you've gotta put it in outline mode otherwise the blurs will slow your 
>> machine to a halt. Also, I've been rendering the bitmaps on the 
>> command line, eg:
>>
>> inkscape --without-gui --export-png=0003b.png 0003.svg
> 
> Of note is the fact that the new GDM loads up the default desktop 
> wallpaper and it seems that a fancy wallpaper with animations and 
> effects would really slow down the GDM load time which is not a nice 
> user experience since the whole system feels slow at that point. If my 
> guess is right, keeping the wallpaper very simple is the way to go.

When I'm talking about this wallpaper being slow in Inkscape, I mean in 
Inkscape only. :) The rendered bitmap will in no way slow GDM down.

~m




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