Hi All. I've been working hard on a background for DSL. I would like to know if you find it interesting or suitable for DSL. There are some things that need more work as lightning, textures and maybe I need to add one or two objects more (I'm thinking about a stamp and a pen, or maybe an USB key as mine). Done with Povray 3.6 for Linux. no postprocessing except to add mi website address (this was done in the Gimp). Comments and critcsm are always welcome. Hope you like it. Bye
txemi -
That is really cool! Seeing DSL under a magnifying glass is a neat idea. Alot of talent around here.
Chris
Quote (clivesay @ Feb. 23 2005,01:14)
Makes me long for wmdrawer even more. That is too nice a desktop for icon clutter.
Chris
I agree! Too many (unmatched??) icons tend to make desktops look cluttered. Although one or two icons like browser and email (prehaps a help icon too) can be useful.
Fullsize background is here if anyone wants to play with it (800x600) :- background image
Cheers rob PS To all who've contributed ideas - Great work! Great ideas! Interesting idea with the magnifying glass... One point for these desktop images, I think you really need an image that can be located centrally on the screen, and blend to a plain background colour (ie. from the fluxbox style), so that it can be used at any resolution - maybe a 640x480 image at largest, so that it's fullscreen at the minimum supported desktop size (I think it's safe to say that we don't need to cater to anything below that?), then at 800x600, 1024x768, etc., the background colour comes into play. Though I guess maybe if a large image is set to center-on-screen, it would just crop the edges...
Still, the smaller the image, the smaller the file-size, unless you are reducing colour-depth on a gif... Oh, does the background tool support png? Might be a better file format for it than jpg? I'm working with line-art styles rather than photographic styles, so I can get away with colour-reduced gif...Hi all, and 1st of all thank you for your comments. I've been working a little more in the wallpaper, and I have added an USB key (well, 2, but one is too much distorted by the glass). The image is at the end of this message. Lightning and textures are the same yet.
I'm working on a logo in Inkscape, but that will be tomorrow (well, today), I'm going to bed now. Bye Next Page...
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