<quote who="volvoguy"> > Anyway, on to my point. Jeff, I think you're the one that either makes or > picks the current artwork, and I'm diggin' this new "Ubuntu Lagoon" image > I got during my update today. I have one question and/or suggestion > though. Wouldn't it make it ultimately more flexible if all the color > portions were transparent, and you set the default background color as > brown? Then people that like the artwork, but not the color, could just > pick a different color and be all set.
I'd love to, but the image is not a simple composition of the background and foreground colours. You can play for yourself by using the desaturated image as a selection mask, and filling it with white and creating a coloured layer behind it. Looks like crap. :-) Our contracted artist, Cliff Chen, created the default backgrounds for 5.04 and 5.10. We've discussed the use of more complex composition filters in the background display routines - we could do this in future releases with Cairo filters. We certainly won't get arbitrary layers and arbitrary composition filter selection, but we could get at least addition, subtraction, overlay, etc. Possibly doable in the dapper timeframe, but relatively unlikely (will require some work on both Cairo and the background display routines). That said, where simple composition works, I fully endorse the use of this fantastic feature! </mayor-quimby> ;-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/ "Whoever wrote [the Twisted documentation] uses a vivid and interesting style of prose which triggers pleasure." - Francois Pinard -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
