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axxium
 Post subject: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:46 pm 
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Hi,

Widescreens are becoming more popular each day. I know this because I just bought one. That is when it dawned on me that we don't have much artwork for them. My new laptop has a resolution of 1280x800 so I edited all of Zenwalk 4.4.1's backgrounds to accommodate this size.

I will post a link to these backgrounds later today, but in the meantime I'd like to discuss some options with my fellow Zenwalk artists. I think it would be a great idea to create sticky posts in the artwork section based on image resolution, e.g. 1280x1024, 1280x800..... In this way we can organize wallpaper sizes in much the same way it is done at xfce-look.org and co.

What do you think? Perhaps there is a better place for this at Zenwalk.org?

:)

Michael

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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:51 pm 
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axxium wrote:
Hi,

Widescreens are becoming more popular each day. I know this because I just bought one. That is when it dawned on me that we don't have much artwork for them. My new laptop has a resolution of 1280x800 so I edited all of Zenwalk 4.4.1's backgrounds to accommodate this size.

I will post a link to these backgrounds later today, but in the meantime I'd like to discuss some options with my fellow Zenwalk artists. I think it would be a great idea to create sticky posts in the artwork section based on image resolution, e.g. 1280x1024, 1280x800..... In this way we can organize wallpaper sizes in much the same way it is done at xfce-look.org and co.

What do you think? Perhaps there is a better place for this at Zenwalk.org?

:)

Michael


I am not an artist myself, but I like this idea.

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axxium
 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:03 pm 
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Hi,

Here are the backgrounds as I promised, with one new one. Can you find it?

http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php/topic,6551.0.html

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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:06 pm 
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Hi,

Another thought. Should I make a Zenwalk package for the modified backgrounds? It could be named

backgrounds_1280x800-1.0-noarch-44.1.tgz

We could make some other sizes as well.

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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:25 pm 
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Sounds like a good idea to me. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:37 am 
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Gimp is part of Zenwalk by default:
Editing a wallpaper to change its size is not very difficult... ;)

For zenwalls hunters, these are almost all in 1280x1024:
http://freds-dc-zenwalk-walls.blogspot.com/
http://freds-dc-zenwalk-svgs.blogspot.com/
http://slackart.linuxpackages.net/index ... walk_linux

Cheers,
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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:44 pm 
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1440x900 would be an appreciated resolution too. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:19 pm 
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Hi,

My first 1440x900:
http://desktop-candies.blogspot.com/

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:00 pm 
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Evening Zenwalk 1280x800 :

http://omploader.org/vcWVr
http://omploader.org/vcWVs

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:40 am 
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You cant achieve much compression on images and bundling them into a package will make it very huge size. So its better to put it on the artwork site of Zenwalk.

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 Post subject: Re: Widescreens rise in popularity - Need more art
PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:12 pm 
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I could upload my personal Widescreen background collection, if you told me where. But the images aren't created as Zenwalk Artwork. So no penguins.
They're rather serious and unobtrusive, coz I'm always annoyed by this photos in the background whether they're family, landscape or whatever photos.

Or I just send them to one of you so you can base Zenwalk Artwork upon them.

Anyway where can/should I upload them?
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