On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > It's too bad that openSUSE 10.2 shipped with poor wallpapers, and the > default one was not beautyful. Thankfully, I upgraded straight to factory from 10.0 and am using a custom wallpaper I made.
> In the past, SUSE Linux 9.1 and 10.0 shipped with BEAUTYFUL > wallpapers, installed by default ! This is important since this thing > is the first one a user seems on his brand new desktop, and wallpaper > is one of the criterions that make a man happy or unhappy about his > new desktop, and I'm really unhappy due to the sorry state of SUSE > wallpapers recently. This I agree with - I was quite fond of my green lizard in SuSE 10.0 :) You're right, something MUST be done. > So, to fix the sorry state of 10.2 wallpaper and make sure it doesn't > happens again in 10.3, I propose: > 1. automatically package and install, by default, top 10 highest-rated > wallpapers from kde-look.org on each openSUSE release. And with each alpha - so you have something like 30-40 choices by the time you get a release. Also, maybe some of the wallpapers from the Xfce Art site and the GNOME wallpaper sites too - not all of us care for Crystal SVG :) > 2. the default wallpaper, I think should be chosen democratically, by votes. There's the problem of puppeteering there, but perfectly valid. > 3. kde-look.org wallpapers can be SUSEfied, by adding a SUSE lizard at > the top-right corner, like we did in 9.1 and 10.0 releases. AND Xfce-art, GNOME, etc. > 4. All previous successfull wallpapers should NOT get dropped, but be > supplied with newer openSUSE releases, such as default 9.1 and 10.0 > wallpapers. YES. > What do you think of it ? I think you've hit the nail on the head. But in the best tradition of good ideas, it possibly won't fly because some lugnut will try and stop it, worried about some inane technicalities and saying it will add to distribution size or something... > ..Of course we must filter some off-topic or offensive wallpapers, > prior to voting. Of course. > -- > -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" > -- -- /"Horst Günther Burkhardt III"-------------------\ | There's no place like localhost (127.0.0.1) | | http://peanuthorst.livejournal.com/ <- blog | \-----------------------------<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/
