28 Aug
2014
28 Aug
'14
12:30 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:20:28 +0100
Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro(a)yahoo.it> wrote:
Hi,
Hey, you wont remove Konqui? :) It was almost the only one worth keeping!
I personally don't think that tiling wallpapers are used that much anymore. These were
almost from the Win 3.1 era, when the available amount of free RAM was so scarce that it
was unthinkable to use a full picture, but if they use very little disk space, they can be
kept. But I won't use these.
I evaluate at approximately 12mb the required disk space for the wallpapers that I
uploaded in bug 2094. In 2014, 12mb is still acceptable and hi-res backgrounds are almost
required for today's hi-res screen, and we're not even talking about HiDPI, IPS or
retina screens yet...
It would be nice in the future to evaluate the option of having picture previews instead
of choosing in a list. Even Gnome 2 has that and it is easier to find pictures with a
preview than with the file name.
-Alexandre
On the subject of new backgrounds, I have gone
through the list of backgrounds installed by default (on my system at least) and identify
those that I think we should replace with new ones (already provided by Alex). The list is
as follow:
1) To be removed/replaced:
Appropriately Left Handed
Blue-green crissocross
Gold crickle
Green curtain
Kubical (because it shows 'KDE')
Stripes
Superfluous organ
The good times
Totally new product
Triple gears
Vegetative fog
Water
Won Ton soup
2) Other candidates for removal/replacement
All good people
Blue angle swirl
Chicken song
Geared globe
Mystical right turn
Time for lunch
The old backgrounds that will be removed/replaced will not be completely deleted. Instead
they will be moved to tdeartwork/wallpapers/obsolete and installed into
/opt/trinity/share/wallpapers/obsolete, so that a user can still access them if required.
A note will be added to the v14.0.0 release notes.
Please review the list above and let me know if some changes are necessary (i.e. you want
to add/remove wallpapers to the list).
Nearly all of the files on your list are the tiling wallpapers. They aren't very
large.
The end result is that we'll be increasing the size of the tdebase package
substatially by replacing them with a dozen hi-res backgrounds. And I think some
of the files on your list aren't in the current tdebase package (going by
https://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdebase/tree/pics/wallpapers )
kubical -> replace
triplegears -> replace
konqui -> replace (shows old KDE mascot)
stripes -> replace
mystical right turn -> replace
globe -> replace
default gears -> replace
chicken songs -> replace
Appropriately Left Handed, Blue-green criss-cross, Gold crinkle, Green curtain,
Superfluous organ, The good times, Vegetative fog, and Water aren't in the tdebase
package as far as I can tell. The only tiling background in the 'base package
that I'd drop is Chicken Songs. The other five are a well-selected assortment
(mix of darkish/light, contrasty/subtle, and various colours).
There's nothing that says we have to put all the new wallpapers in 'base,
either.
The purpose of including wallpapers in that package at all is to allow the
user to find something to look at that won't make their eyes bleed while they
go searching for the perfect custom background. It doesn't have to be a
comprehensive assortment.
E. Liddell