Re: Background image collection
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jon Franklin wrote:
>
> > I, for one, would love to see these pics packaged for Debian.
> Any idea how to make it sanely.
> I do not want to bloat neither the Debian archive nor users disk. I had
> in mind the following path:
>
> background-at_<version>.orig.tar.gz
> -> contains 1600x1200 images
>
How about expanding "at" to "tillea-set1"?
That way you can split the images into more manageable sections. I liked
the photos I saw, but did notice that some of them are more suitable for
backgrounds than others. Hence, -set1 might be good backgrounds, -set2
might be interesting others, and -set3 might be the remainder.
Also, it makes it more obvious which backgrounds "belong" to which person
(since lastname-initial is more distinguishable than initial-initial)
> background-at-1600x1200_<version>_all.deb
> background-at-1280x1024_<version>_all.deb
> background-at-1024x768_<version>_all.deb
> background-at-800x600_<version>_all.deb
> background-at-640x480_<version>_all.deb
> -> containing the images scaled down to the apropriate size
>
I'd be concerned for disk space, and would suggest considering a single
high-res (say 1600x1200) package, and then a single middle res (say
800x600). If the end user runs a different screen resolution and doesn't
have processor power to rescale them on the fly, we can provide scripts to
resize locally.
Dave
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