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Post subject: "Ourea" Wallpaper Comp - discussion thread
 Posted: Jul 12, 2008 - 12:07 AM
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Post subject: RE: "Ourea" Wallpaper Comp - discussion thread
Posted: Aug 05, 2008 - 04:59 AM
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I saw this photo and said to myself, "it's Ourea". I could see the lava coming down the mountainside (it's actually a lava lake), and the foreground would be a great place for a logo.
Unfortunately the photo is copyrighted so it would have to be drawn and changed slightly. I don't know if I have the time or the talent to accomplish that, but I figured I would share the photo.
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano ... a6e10fbdce |
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Post subject: RE: "Ourea" Wallpaper Comp - discussion thread
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 10:56 PM
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Just an update - we currently have 4 entries submitted, you can preview them at
http://sidux.com/module-Mediashare-view-aid-107.html
The most striking thing for me is how different they all are - keep the entries coming  |
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Post subject: RE: "Ourea" Wallpaper Comp - discussion thread
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 11:31 PM
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Clicking on the above link takes me to a sidux.com page that says:
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You do not have access to this feature
That's with me logged into the site when clicking the link. The page it goes to shows me as an "unlogged user" |
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Post subject: RE: "Ourea" Wallpaper Comp - discussion thread
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 11:39 PM
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Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 02:15 AM
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ooooh, I really like the middle two- bubbles and lava. Very different, both very good. I haven't like the backgrounds so much since Gaia. The lava one seems to be closest in theme, I guess. Not sure what bubbles have to do with mountains, but I like them. The others are clearly good work, but don't appeal to me for some reason.
Who does the deciding? Is it a poll, or does slh choose? |
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Posted: Aug 07, 2008 - 06:01 AM
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i love the apt2svg one.
the green one with bubbles is cool - but makes me very thirsty for a sprite or 7up. no joke!
the other two are well done too, but, apt2svg is my fav. |
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Posted: Aug 08, 2008 - 07:01 PM
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I'm envious of talented artists, and these submissions are all great.
But to my tastes, "ourea-last" is amazing.
I liked it enough to download as wallpaper for myself. The only 'adjustment' necessary was that I had to move my icons off of the mountains themselves because the text was a little hard to read. I know I could have changed my icon text color, but there is plenty of room in the blue area for the icons I have on my desktop and I suspect the same would be true for most others. |
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Posted: Aug 08, 2008 - 11:15 PM
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Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 06:48 AM
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| I like the blue ones (icebear & universal sidux). Nice color and professional design. |
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Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 07:01 AM
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i like ourea-wp a lot
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Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 11:39 AM
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I really like that I can drag those pictures right from the gallery onto my desktop to test them wihtout the need to explicitly save them somewhere. Fast and easy testing.
Ourea-wp is funny, I love the face in the mountain (my first draft was an eye in a mountain - but it looked too esoteric so I dropped it). I'd just prefer a smoother blending between the dark stripe at the top and the middle part. And a white text is very good to see in the dark part but a dark font color would be better for the light part.
I do like the grey blue of ourea-last but I don't like the mountains in it. Same font color problem: all icons in the lower left part of the screen need a dark font color whereas the rest needs a light color. The right part of kicker needs light font color, the left part needs dark color when using a (semi-)transparent kicker.
The icebear/penguin wallpaper: funny and neat, no font color problem. At first I thought it's a little too blue but after test-dragging it onto my desktop I like it though I prefer the greyish blue of ourea last.
aktive-universal-sidux.800? Nice one though *very* blue but I find the debian swirl and the earth disturbing. I'd prefer a version without those. I think one should have in mind that there a people with a widescreen display which stretches the wallpaper - and such a big part of the screen that's displayed as oval instead of an orb (especially when you know it has to be an orb) does not look good. I can tolerate small bubbles as ovals but not earth...
I really love the bubbles wallpaper though I don't like dark green. I wouldn't want a dark green desktop background, I never liked that color. Nonethelesss I was impressed by that wallpaper at first sight. On my desktop it doesn't look that good as I had expected because for my taste the weight is too much on the left side and the neglected right side is a bit too naked.
apt2svg is a very nice idea - but the wallpaper itself is too pastel (baby blue and yellow) and confusing for my taste.
And just in case you ask: sidux-lava is very dark... but the part in the middle does not interfere with any icons which usually are placed in the corners and at the screen borders. 
I'm still quite unsure which one I would choose... |
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Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 12:40 PM
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I really like rovel 's suggestion perhaps he could do it in a red version again to have a connection to lava?
Will there be a poll or will it be decided by the developers? |
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Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 01:00 PM
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ibgb wrote:
I'm envious of talented artists, and these submissions are all great.
But to my tastes, "ourea-last" is amazing.
I liked it enough to download as wallpaper for myself. The only 'adjustment' necessary was that I had to move my icons off of the mountains themselves because the text was a little hard to read. I know I could have changed my icon text color, but there is plenty of room in the blue area for the icons I have on my desktop and I suspect the same would be true for most others.
Thanks a lot.
Provided I'm using xfce and kde4 (and regreting my nvidia gc), I had not noticed this problem.
I don't know if the packagers can change the desktop font color: It would not be a problem anymore.
Otherwise you can use this modified version:
http://i51.servimg.com/u/f51/12/81/39/66/ourea-11.jpg
But if you like it enough to modify your icons layout, that makes my day. |
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Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 03:58 AM
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spacepenguin wrote:
... I think one should have in mind that there a people with a widescreen display which stretches the wallpaper - and such a big part of the screen that's displayed as oval instead of an orb (especially when you know it has to be an orb) does not look good....
Every wallpaper package comes with a widescreen and normal aspect ratio version - this will be the same for these wallpapers (obviously the art team will create the wide version if it's not provided as part of the original submission)
@ the people asking about the judging method, it will be decided by poll, and can be voted on by any of the sidux "contributors" who have access to a restricted forum. |
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