desktop backgrounds [was Re: Fedora-desktop-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 23]

[Rubi Sutanto]

Helo I want to sorry to all,
I only want you guys give me a comment to my wallpaper not my desktop,
cause i only download the themes and use it in my desktop except
wallpaper that i made my selft, sory i think the screenshoot the desktop
will be better than only wallpaper that i attach, once agai i'm sorry if
you guys don't like my desktop themes. once again i'm only want a
commnent for my wallpaper not the desktop themes thanks again.

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:14 -1000, Angela Kahealani wrote:
> On Sunday 2004-08-29 21:51, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > 	Fedora has its own artwork, Rubi suggested a new desktop background,
> > you ranted about the icons on his desktop.
> 
> I did not rant... you passed judgement upon my opinion that it was a 
> "rant". He asked for OPINIONS, I gave mine. He got what he asked for.
> 
> As for "desktop"s, the best desktop is a simple neutral 50% grey...
> it's the ONLY background that will not pollute your color perception of
> anything else showing on the screen. If you're not doing serious color 
> sensitive work, but merely like eye-candy, then you're dealing with 
> very personal preferences, and have forsaken color correct perception.
> If you're editing / color correcting graphics or video, you need a
> neutral grey surround, and monitor color temperature calibration and 
> gamma compensation appropriate for the target medium, either print or 
> NTSC video or computer video. 
> 
> So, artwork on the desktop cannot be taken seriously, as any serious 
> rational approach can only lead where I went in the previous paragraph.
> Therefore, as someone once said: "I don't know much about art, but I do 
> know what I like". Rubi solicited opinions, and got what he asked for. 
> Art being non rational and of widely varying tastes, it's no wonder 
> that most "desktop" software ships with a wide variety of sample 
> backgrounds, so yeah, go ahead and include it as one of those. Great.
> 
> My desktop will remain a rarely seen neutral 50% grey, mostly only seen 
> as a surround for Gimp work when I bother to hide all other open 
> windows in order to obtain collor correct perception of what I'm 
> editing in the Gimp. 
> 
> If Rubi wants an evaluation of the artwork, it would be better to send 
> it without iconic overlays, allowing us to install and test it on our 
> own desktops... but as he submitted it to us, it WAS a piece of artwork 
> that included a TradeMarked icon that could not be conveniently or 
> easily removed for evaluation of the art on its' own merit. 
> 
> Icons invoke associations. Include them in artwork upon which opinions 
> are requested, and the opinion will be colored with the association 
> invoked by the icon, just as a non grey surround alters color 
> perception of an image in a window that does not fill the screen.
> 
> Are we having fun yet?
> 
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