Re: The status of desktop-base in wheezy

[Adrien Aubourg <adrien.aubourg@gmail.com>]

Le vendredi 29 juin 2012 10:10:03 Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:37:17AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> > > Please reconsider the "ink splats". I think this is one of those ideas
> > > that look good for five minutes, but not for two years, just like the
> > > rocket last time.
> > 
> > I've talked with the author just before this email, and I have him
> > control. He noted that it was not as well recieved as some of the other
> > themes, so the ink-splat in unlikely to be default.
> 
> I wonder if this is true for all the uses of the ink splats decoration.
> Even though I like it as a desktop background, I can see how it could
> get annoying in the long run for that specific use. OTOH, the boot
> splash is something someone will potentially see for two years, but only
> during startup/shutdown. I'm less convinced that for *that* specific use
> the argument "it will get annoying in the long run" really holds. So, as
> a mere user, I wonder if you, the author, and the other participants to
> this list might consider using the fancier ink splats decoration for the
> boot parts (splashes, grub, etc.) and keep the non ink splats version as
> the default desktop background (offering the ink splat as an option
> there, as it is already the case in sid). Thanks for considering.
> 
> 
> Zack, still pending a more general answer in this thread,

Hi,

That is a good idea. But as a author, I want to keep the current grub 
background. We may consider the inksplats version for plymouth or/and for 
GDM/KDM so it can indicate the user that Debian just booted.

If it is used for GDM/KDM, it can be odd to use the "usual" version of the 
background for plymouth, as it will witch from "usual" to "inksplats" to 
"usual" again.

So I guess the inksplats background can be used for plymouth only, or for 
plymouth+GDM/KDM, but not just GDM/KDM.

The fading effect from inksplats to usual can be nice.

To be short, if we decide to use the inksplats background, I will be likely 
for plymouth and GDM/KDM.

One more thing though, inksplats style is a very common and used over and over 
style. Some of us like it, but we have to keep in mind that it is not so very 
creative and original, where very simple backgrounds as the usual one are 
(oddly) not so seen.

If the message for Wheezy if "simple, fast and polished", maybe we should 
avoid the inksplat wallpaper.

Adrien