User Feedback :: New DSL Theme/Icon Contest

We are approaching DSL 1.0 and one thing that keeps coming up is that people do not like the default theme. So, why not have a contest to replace the old one?

Here are the guidlines:
- the theme needs to be dark, not necessarily black
- smaller size backround images are preferred
- no bubble icons (they look terrible at 800x600)
- icons and themes may be submitted seperately
- needs to be usable at 800x600x8, and look good at 1024x768x16 and 800x600x16

I like this contest.
/me gets out a pencil.....

John, is there any set guidelines for what 16colour is, ie. is there a set pallet, or is it different for each machine? If a set pallet, can someone post it?
My machine will only boot with fb (since about v0.8 or so, don't know why, all new hardware...), so I can't (as far as I know?) specify the colour depth I want to boot at to test stuff.

If I take a screenshot and then decrease colour depth to 16 colours, will this give a reasonable indication? If "kinda", what method of colour reduction (Median Cut, Octree, Windows, and nearest colour or error diffusion)?

Simple black&white would obviously be the most compatible with every possible graphics setting, but it's a bit hard to figure out a new theme using just these that will keep people reasonably happy...

PS. Oh yeah, any verdict on whether "damn" can be mentioned?

Oh wait, what do you mean by "8" and "16"? Is that bit, as in 256colour minimum requirements? Only saw the "16" before, and thought you meant 16 colours? (Guess you'd have to have some really old stuff to be running like that...)
If 8bit, then that's not such a problem.

Is is possible to have the current theme tied to a certain resolution boot setting so that the current theme is used as a default for lower settings and a different theme is used for the DSL default xsetup? May be too complicated but just a thought.

Chris

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