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I just hope distros use them
by Skeith on Sunday 18/Nov/2007, @20:08
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Since most distros apply their own branded wallpaper. Aesthetics in KDE4 get better every day, although I do wish it was an open poll.
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Thank you
by oLdsk3wL on Sunday 18/Nov/2007, @23:49
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They look great and the KDE4 is shaping up very nicely.
Thanks again
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O_O
by shamaz on Sunday 18/Nov/2007, @23:51
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The 'Wow' Starts Now (c)
;)
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Realy cool
by Dumas on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @00:00
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Cool wallpappers! espatialy "Ladybuggin"
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Wow!
by Bobby on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @00:06
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The Wallpapers are simple breathtaking. I just can't wait to see a finished KDE4!
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Great!
by Michael on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @00:55
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These are really looking great. Once the artistic design decisions are taken out of the hands of the coding geeks, Open Source can actually look beautiful ;-) If this really is too much for you - go here:
http://www.dotproject.net/
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Animating?
by Andy on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @01:01
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Love the wallpapers, top job!
I'm just wondering whether KDE4 will allow animating wallpapers like Vista Ultimate (it calls them Dreamscapes - but I believe it's just playing avi movies). I know some will complain and say it's a resource hog, but there is something both relaxing and beautiful about having swaying grass or running water on the desktop. So, how about it?
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Looks great
by Beat Wolf on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @01:45
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Just a little bit strange that 5 out of 15 wallpapers are from jury member.
But i can't realy complain, they all look great! :-D
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Kenneth Wimer..
by fast_rizwaan on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @02:36
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I love the wallpaers "Summer" and "Fields of Peace", both make me feel refreshed and relaxed. wonderful wallpapers.. you rock Kenneth! thanks :)
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image ratio
by egan on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @02:55
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And what about the differents screen ratio for the user ?
When you use a 1024x768 screen (ratio 4/3) or a 1440x900 screen (ratio 16/10) the result is very different !
The solution is to use a scalable wallpaper (SVG) and NOT a jpeg wallpaper.
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Gorgeous Pictures
by bangert on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @03:08
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In my humble opinion the artistic results of the contest are absolutly stunning. Thank you very much to the Oxygen team.
However, I still disagree with the decision to allow jury members to submit images to the contest. It's even worse that so many of them "won" the "contest". I strongly suggest that this practice is changed in the future.
You could have released the Oxygen Wallpaper Set and then have a contest to create the 'Oxygen Contributers Set 2007'.
Had I taken part in the contest, I would have felt cheated...
Mind you, this is purely a criticism of the process, not of the result.
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BUG!
by Stalwart on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @04:52
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There's typo in links to VladStudio
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Can't wait to turn all these...
by jasper on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @05:11
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into a screensaver slideshow!
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Green Concentration
by markrian on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @05:48
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The link to Green Concentration points to a broken image, as only the top half seems to have the image data.
Guys, these are beautiful images, by any standards. Fantastic work to authors and organisers alike!
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Summer is great
by Ian Monroe on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @06:50
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I finally tried running a full KDE 4 session just this last week. I just have to say that the Summer background (the default) is just fantastic and fits in well with the rest of the schema.
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Pretty!!
by Psychotron on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @06:56
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First of all, to get things straight, KDE 4 will have the best artwork, of any KDE so far! This is really great work! These pictures are overall pretty awesome! And I mean it, despite my comments below!! It's critics on a high level ;)
For the next contest I'd like to make some suggestions however to keep in mind:
- Out of those 15 pictures, 10 are nature shots and of those 7 are leaves, also only 2 are non photographic pictures. IMHO it would have been better to have a bit more diversion, thematically. Maybe another non photographic background in the style of EOS could still be added.
- I'm personally a bit bored of those overdone macro shots, like Red Leaf or Fresh Morning. I think it's sometimes a bit too much macro, bluring the background a bit too much, losing cohesion between the macro object and the background. It's as always, less is often more ;)
- Green Concentration is IMHO a bit too intensive for a default background picture, it's pretty blinding if have fullscreen...
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my preferences.
by yman on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @12:17
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please, my it be "Colorado Farm Oil Paint". I always have problems with bright backgrounds making the icons less readable, and this one is dark. feels darker than just about all of them, in any case. it also looks stunning, which helps.
if it has to be abstract than I sure hope it's "Emotion", because I don't like "Eos" at all.
the rest of the wallpapers would be OK, I just think their nothing special.
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Nice but not too similar???
by Sylvaticus on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @12:36
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Hello... just my 5 cents.. nice are all very nice.. but are not all too much similar???
I would have expected more etherogeneity of subjects...
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Headache
by Boronk on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @12:54
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Sorry to say that, but most of this pictures make me headache. Too blurry, too unsharp. This abrupt switch from sharp to unsharp looks on ome of them very artificial.
I would not want such pictures on my screenbackground.
Sorry.
Boronk
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amazing
by feng shaun on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @14:43
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these are all amazing. Also the work of the top 100 artists should be posted later and available for download too. I mean the top 100 wallpapers!
O and the down part is that these things just add to the unrest to see the finished KDE4. I really can't wait anymore :( it's just so hard!
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miss
by Rudolhp on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @15:59
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miss some walls about konqui....and kde4, i like nature...but is kde4, the most expected DE, and not wallpaper about kd4 or konqui ???
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Wallpapers?
by Grósz Dániel on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @16:12
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Nice pictures but I don't think they are good wallpapers - they contain too much contrast.
Let me qoute the openSUSE artwork guidelines ( http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Guidelines ):
"Wallpapers
The goal of the default wallpaper graphic is to be unobrtusive and allow the items on the desktop to be seen. It should not hinder the overview of user's desktop.
While a solid color background seems to be a perfect fit based on the goal above, the wallpaper also shouldn't be completely dull and boring.
It is very likely that a user will customize a wallpaper and even go against the outlined goal, putting a photo of his beloved one as the background. The default graphic however should only be some sort of abstract shape with low contrast of the texture. Abstract shapes work best for two reasons. First it doesn't make the human visual system focus on the background, but the items on top of it and also it avoids cultural or religious specifics. Using a picture of an animal might have such implications and in worst case scenario insult the user."
I agree with them and I don't think these pictures match them.
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I submitted some wallpapers to the contest...
by Paul Leopardi on Monday 19/Nov/2007, @16:33
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Now that the contest is over, I feel free to submit them to KDE Look. If all other contestants did the same, we would have 1900 new wallpapers.
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Xinerama wallpapers
by Henrik on Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @01:12
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Will these wallpapers be available in dual-screen resolutions as welll?
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No KDE logo
by parsek on Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @09:24
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These are nice pictures but I was expecting wallpapers with KDE4 logo. None of them has it. They look like ordinary pictures not wallpapers.
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its vladstudio
by pete on Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @19:04
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not valdstudio lol
http://www.vladstudio.com
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