On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:04 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > > FWIW I quite like the final version of the wallpaper. I don't like is > that it was changed at the last minute prior to final release -- that > was a process problem, for sure -- but I'm happy with the result. It's > not crap. That's just rude. > > > I'm disappointed with default wallpapers in the latest releases. I > > wonder if we could go back to more artistic images from previous > > releases? Here are some of my favorite ones: > > I guess personal taste is at issue here, so I will provide the complete > opposite feedback. IMO our default wallpapers are at their best when > they're abstract and geometric. The new version of the F32 wallpaper is > one of my all-time favorites. Looks like a lot of effort went into > getting the textures just right. The old cyan version of F32 was good > too. I'm also a big fan of F28, F23, F22, F20, F19, F18, F12. Notice we > didn't pick any the same. Geometric wallpapers are slick, professional, > and work well everywhere. Artsy backgrounds can be fun too, but they > can be more hit and miss as defaults IMO. > > Ubuntu's default backgrounds are always excellent. I like how they > manage to use the same theme for every release to build up a strong, > immediately-recognizable brand, yet still change things up a little bit > to keep it interesting. >
My personal favorites were Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6: FC5: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wallpapers#Fedora_Core_5 FC6: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wallpapers#Fedora_Core_6 Of the two, I loved FC6 more, because I thought the way the Fedora logo was used throughout the artwork was really well-done. And it conveyed what I felt Fedora was about very well: Fedorans are the community, and the community is part of our DNA. Later Fedora releases did a good job providing a coherent theme based on codenames. For the past few years, we've lost a lot of visual differentiation as we've scaled back or killed off aspects of our unique per-release or project identity embodied in the distribution. There were even a couple of times where we went with what I felt to be uselessly bland artwork that I thought made Fedora look like a non-entity. The last few releases have had some interesting wallpapers, but we never quite got the same visual appeal that we had before. And to Michael's point about Ubuntu's branding, they have a set of design principles that they use to simultaneously present "Ubuntu" and the Ubuntu "release" by leveraging their codename scheme and imbuing it in the artwork in creative ways. That's not a thing we do in Fedora anymore... :( -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
