I suspect its the default backgrounds themselves actually. if you go to /usr/share/images/xsplash and open up the background for your resolution, you can then check the image in full screen (by hitting f11). I noticed that the full screen image for my resolution was not the best of quality even within Ubuntu. I suspect that they tried to lower the filesize somehow which may or may not have caused a bit of quality degradation. Either that or they stretched the original to match higher resolutions which caused the effect that most people are noticing.
If you go to the Internet and find a background with your resolution (in my case, 1680x1050) and replace the one in the xsplash folder, restart, the image quality is perfect. -- Poor splash image quality (high banding) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451880 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
