7 Apr
2012
7 Apr
'12
12:33 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 21:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
By my look the only 2 in tdeartwork/wallpapers that
reference kde are
mystical_rightturn.jpg and
kubical.png
Both would be utter pains to convert. kubical would
be damn near impossible. I don't really think either are necessary. Why can't we
just
nuke them and add some really good wallpapers? I have bazillions to choose
from....
Here is a list of the wallpaper images I have installed from Trinity that have branding
issues:
andes-venezolanos.svgz
aurora.svgz
celtic.svgz
default_gears.jpg
globe.svgz
konqui.svgz
kraftwurm.jpg
moon.svgz
mystical_rightturn.jpg
I vote that all svgz wallpaers get purged. Period. They require too much CPU and graphics
horsepower to display. Nice for art shows but useless as wallpaper. celtic.svgz is the
grand
monster of all, requiring several seconds to load even on a dual core. In fact, while
viewing
celtic.svgz in my virtual machine, I could not toggle to my primary desktop without losing
the desktop screen painting.
The main advantage of the svgz wallpapers is that because they're in a vector format,
they
expand to fit large screens without loss of quality (when they work at all—bug 744).
That's
of limited value if they take too much CPU/GPU horsepower, though.
My suggestion would be to strip the branding (easier with these than with the jpg
files—it
took me longer to open Inkscape than to test-delete the KDE logo from aurora) and include
a static PNG rendering of each svgz in the core wallpaper set. The svgz files themselves
can go to Planet-Trinity, if such a thing ever comes into existence.
As for the other four images, default_gears, kraftwurm, and mystical_rightturn are
probably
fixable with a bit of effort. kubical might be as well (or at least I have a tentative
idea of how
it might be done), but I don't think it's worth it—more efficient to purge it.
Do you want me to take this on? If so, where do you want the finished files sent?
There is one other thing about the wallpapers, though: everything in the default set is
sized
for an old-style 4:3 monitor. Most people these days use 16:9 widescreens. We need some
wallpapers that are designed for that aspect ratio. A few of the existing ones can
probably
be cropped to conform, but adding something new might be better.
What is the
status of any art work projects?
I'm curious because many of the images in the wallpaper
collection need branding attention.
Anybody?