2010/12/9 Simon Steinbeiß <[email protected]> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:45:44 +0100 > Thorsten Wilms <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0007_Xubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper : > > > > "The Xubuntu palette has been completely blue, so far. > > > > A monotone color scheme as such sends a message of uniformity, > > stableness and eventually even shyness, indecision and paranoia. It does > > not speak of energy, movement, diversity ... > > > > The wallpaper will have to go well with the panels, windows and icons > > (as far as they appear on the desktop). Its use of color has to support > > the impression of lightness and performance, without becoming a > > distraction in day-to-day use. Aside of this, there is no predefined, > > required palette for the wallpaper." > > Hi everyone, > I'm currently working on the theme for Natty (links and some info to be > found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Natty). Thorsten and > Charlie pointed me to the ongoing discussion here, so I thought I'd add my > 2cents. > > First I think that it would be helpful to have some palette, even if only > for inspiration. I have worked on the palette for greybird for some time, I > wouldn't say it's written in stone, but I don't think I'd like to change it > drastically. Up to now I've only gotten very little specific feedback, so > that would be one thing I'd appreciate. Please be as specific as you can be, > stuff like "it looks dull" isn't very helpful/constructive criticism :) > > The icon theme I'm currently working on (Faenza-xfce) is just a contender > for the well-tested elementary theme we had for the last few cycles. So > maybe don't focus too much on a specific icon theme when designing the > wallpaper (or at least take into account that it could be either of the two > themes). > > Whilst I agree that the wallpaper doesn't have to be blue, I'd like to > mention that currently the theme (greybird) - even though mainly grey-ish > and more conservative-looking than the previous bluebird - has blue > highlights. > > That's it for now from my side for now, > Simon > > PS: Here's a screenshot for the picture I currently use as a backdrop, just > to show that the theme works very well with a not-totally-blue wallpaper :) > http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/2380/the_beach.html > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
Simon, Posting your wallpaper image to DeGraeve results in the following palette. http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php?q=http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/Decbb444/02380_thebeach_1280x1024.jpg,0e4064ceaf69bf9e5acbccb85a7f96,005cb9ffdf95f7cd77fdfdfb6ba7ce Nice! John
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