Ideally it should probably be produced to an aspect ratio half-way between 4:3 and 8:5 (eg. 16:11, or working with a base image of 640x440) so that it looks vaguely correct both:
a) when strectched to a VGA screen b) when centred on an LCD display or VMware screenshot The biggest reason why the current artwork doesn't work is that there are too many transitions of colours; really there is only space for one gradient of colours (eg. brown->black). In the case this new artwork it attempts to use: black->white orange->black/gray/white yellow->black/gray/white red->black/gray/white which is far too much to dither and provide immediate colours for when there are only 14 palette entries. The new Kubuntu one is very good and was done by somebody who understood the restrictions of the environment; It uses 3 shades of blue in total, all of which effectively share the same gradient (blue->black). Vipper550: your artwork looks much better. If there /has/ to be a change I hope it's considered. At this moment in time, I think we'd be better reverting to the breezy artwork. This would have the effect of promoting the image of stability/continuity and that we don't change things unless we can do for the better. -- Regression in usplash artwork https://launchpad.net/bugs/44339 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
