My background is computer graphics. I've been on that industry for about 20 years.
There's no way wallpapers with so much gradients on a limited color range that cover a big screen area at the same time will look good on most screens today. Not only laptops use mainly 6-bit panels. There are also many cheap desktop monitors that do the same. Some dither properly, others don't. But I even question that big screens using 8bit per channel will properly show these gradients too. As a matter of fact, this wallpaper might be used to test an 8bit monitor's quality... ;-) Until we all have a 10bit per channel workflow (and that won't happen in a long long time) the real solution is letting the artists know the limitations of gradients -especially those on short color ranges using big screen areas- and ask them for a different style of wallpapers. Non- busy wallpapers doesn't mean "very simple gradients with tons of blur". Of course, management at Canonical should be informed about this too, just in case orders to use this wallpaper style come from above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-wallpapers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1081702 Title: Update the default wallpaper in 13.04 Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in “ubuntu-wallpapers” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: We have got the 13.04 wallpaper ready ahead of schedule, so we might as well get it in the distro now ;-) See attached file "ubuntu_default_13_04.jpg" ------------------------------------ This change is part of a larger set of icon changes, the other bugs that are part of this same change request are: bug #1081704 (Dash - update the 'App Lens' icon asset in the Dash bottom lens nav bar) bug #1081702 (Update the default wallpaper in 13.04) bug #838854 (Workspaces, Launcher - The workspace Launcher icon should change depending on which workspace is currently being utilised) bug #1081697 (Launcher - Update BFB icon to use a new special asset) bug #1081687 (Launcher - Update Launcher tile assets) bug #1081691 (Launcher - Update the icons used for the Software Centre, Nautilus, and Software Updater) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1081702/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
