Comments on: Artwork for Ubuntu Jaunty Already Impressive

By: nealio

nealio — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:31:30 +0000

These are the worst ever wallpapers I’ve seen. I hope this is a joke. Why so literal??? Canonical really could use the help of some decent graphic designers out there. Brown is a terrible colour choice. Microsoft and Apple both know what they’re doing because they have people who’s job it is to get those OS’s to look good. It doesn’t matter how “good” software is sometimes. Lots of users get put off by how something looks unfortunately no matter how “good” it is. Thankfully the wallpaper is something that is easily ditchable after a new install of Ubuntu! A plain black background is better than this rubbish.

By: Annonymous Coward

Annonymous Coward — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:30:08 +0000

Including the dust theme is a good start, Ubuntu should be aiming for the darker colors, more UPS like.

By: pkt

pkt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:26:45 +0000

They *do* want to compete with MS. With apple I ‘m not sure (although there is evidence for that too), but the fact that the “foundational” bug #1 in ubuntu’s bugzilla (supposedly the most crucial bug that ubuntu was created to fix) was that MS has a larger market share. If that doesn’t look like willingness to compete, I don’t know what does

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:02 +0000

…who says ubuntu wants to compete with OSX or Win? It’s an alternative.. a smart and free (as in beer) alternative.

And then.. such hatred because of a wallpaper.. or a colour.. tststs… If you don’t like it just download one of the hundreds of themes available.. or get creative and make your own.. or be “open source minded” and improve one that is already there.. maybe others will like it, too.
I use Windows (for my company), OSX (for private use) and Ubuntu (to actually get work done) – they all have their weaknesses and strengths. There is no “perfect” OS (although OSX is pretty close – if you have the cash to afford the hardware… )

Andreas

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:40:36 +0000

I’m just amazed at how crazy the fighting gets. There is nothing inherently wrong with blue, or brown, or green – and browns have their place. I do agree that an overall improvement in the system as a whole – to make it look more like a professionally built product – is important. Windows 7 is looming as a big threat, and we can’t assume that it will be as bad as Vista, and it should be better than XP

By: micro

micro — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:03:22 +0000

They do not look professional at all, but children will probably like them. If Ubuntu wants to compete with Mac or Windows 7 they need something that looks like a professional made it, not like it was created by some eager amateur programmer.

By: George

George — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:07:17 +0000

Are you kidding? Those wallpapers are garbage! Authors have no sense and taste to do a professional wallpaper. Those wallpapers can be used maybe for some kid-friendly OS, not for a professional OS Ubuntu wants to be. They should look at openSUSE how to do a professional artwork.

By: sicko

sicko — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:00:40 +0000

Ubuntu’s theme is HORRIBLE

By: Skripka

Skripka — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:40:02 +0000

Using KDE-I don’t have anything vested in this…but I am a sucker for a good wallpaper….

We can argue salient details until the cows come home, regarding theme color choices, textures, etc etc etc.

But, at the most fundamental level, I really don’t like how the subject is framed. In most of them.

Presumably-the subject is a jackalope. Yes?
-Most of these papers make VERY inefficient use of desktop space to present the subject of the image.
-Most have a big brown background with a tiny jackalope in the corner, seemingly as an afterthought. I doubt it is, but to my eye (that tends to be critical)-that is the impression I get.

I like the Miffan R3 on the Wiki page the best of all of them-it needs work, they all do, but it has the most potential starting from a good idea. It has the right idea. The others don’t, to be blunt.

-A good photo or image should leave no DOUBT as to what the viewer should be looking at and remembering, regardless of whether they know what a jackalope is or not.

-Also, and this is a BIG ISSUE, as a desktop wallpaper-I have a 22″ LCD panel 1680X1050 monitor–I don’t want a wallpaper that is entirely brown, with a tiny 100X100 pixel jackalope in the corner. This exemplifies the big problem of poor image framing. I want my wallpaper to show off my screen-all 22 inces of it.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:20:53 +0000

Oops. Fixed. No need to tell me twice.