Hi
Today I want to talk about wallpapers and the great community.
Nuno (not Hugo) made the plasma 5.1 wallpaper and kver the wallpaper for plasma 5.2. The wallpapers are great and a good standard setting but in the past there are more than one wallpaper available in plasma. In the kde-wallpapers-4.8.x package there are Air, Ariya, Autumn, Azul, Blue Wood, Castilla Sky, Finally Summer in Germany, Flying Field, Fog on the West Lake, Fresh Moring, Grass, Hanami, Horos and Media Life.
The plasma team and the Visual Design Group want to bring a large selection of wallpapers to plasma 5.3 and therefore We need YOU. Why because you are part of the community and my idea was to show the community, for example:
- Beach from Huawei
- City of Bangkok
- Animals from Peru
- Krita artist wallpaper
- Konqui in Silicon Valley
- Children wallpaper for KDE education
- plasma (physic) animated wallpaper
- day and night time wallpaper for hackers
- mountains from austria
- …
I also want to have wallpapers for the weather app but therefore wallpapers for the following weather conditions are necessary:
- clear
- partly cloudy
- cloudy
- very cloudy
- showering
- scattered showers
- rainy
- misty
- storming
- hailing
- snowing
- scattered snow
- partly cloudy night
- cloudy night
- clear night
- mixed precipition
Basic guidelines:
- Keep it simple: don’t use too many colours, shapes, etc.
- Use a single point of focus to draw the eye in
- Design at a minimum resolution of 2560 x 1600
- use png for bitmap files (less colours), jpg for photos and svg for vector artist (result in png)
- Licence: LGPLv3
- No branding
- Test the wallpaper with different resolutions and form factors
- Break all the rules except the resolution and licence one!
Finished wallpapers:
- If possible upload your finished wallpaper to opendesktop.org
- post the link to the wallpaper in the blog post comments
Time schedule:
- 1st April 2015
- The winning wallpapers will be revealed on 9th April 2015
Thanks for contributing to Plasma.
I humbly offer English Strawberries in Summertime for your consideration :
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169192
I hope we see some really great entries make it into Plasma 5.3
Why are you using a Ubuntu style(>14.04) wallpaper? Things are now okey between Cannonical and KDE?
I don’t have a problem with Cannonical, Suse, Arch, … and that’s not the question. I look for Plasma wallpapers and the pictures are only examples.
Here is my contribution, a couple of photos:
‚Austrian mountains‘
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169196
‚Tropical Summer‘
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169197
both jpg, 4096×2731 resolution, LGPL
never had that response in a blog post before. cool. I don’t use social media so if you do please link to the post.
thanks
I have to be honest in saying that I never liked any of KDE default wallpaper, butI did find the 5.1 version good, though I really dislike the 5.2 version.
The problem is that the wallpaper and the breeze suit doesnt match up well. The opaque white with a simplistic and overly colorful wallpaper look ugly, but if we change to the Breeze-dark the problem attenuates as the contrast makes it somewhat interesting.
IMHO the Breeze-dark should be made default and the Breeze theme should be replaced with a more translucent and much less whitish than it currently is. But since it’s not a theme post but a wallpaper one, making the default darker to better match Breeze would be nice. I think the choices of Fedora and SUSE for their custom default wallpaper is an example to be followed.
I can sey it it nice to have a light and dark theme and it is easy to change the theme. In addition megathemes (look&feel package) will make it more easier to have a well suited desktop.
About the wallpaper. I start the contest because there is only one wallpaper and if someone don’t like it the user should have the oppinion to change to another. So look at your done pictures or start krita and make the KDE world better.
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I offer my photos that should be usable for wallpaper:
http://kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=karry&action=contents
It is always hard to choose some good images…
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My wallpaers titled ‚Pebbles‘
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169249
I have uploaded some of my wallpaper photos to
http://kde-look.org/content/mycontent.php?xsortmode=alpha&page=0
If I were to choose three out of them, I’d pick the House in Crete, the Icy Stairwell and the Tree Branch, but feel free to use any/all/none 🙂
I think this is the right link
http://opendesktop.org/usermanager/search.php?username=jonathanverner&action=contents
Here are my submissions:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Grey?content=169281
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Mohn?content=169273
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Mohn?content=169275
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Mush?content=169279
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Mush?content=169278
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Puttin?content=169282
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Sandy?content=169276
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Green?content=169280
I’ve submitted them per Flickr-Link. If one is chosen, i’ll submit the Original (Flickr-License is Creative Commons too).
Your Jupiter Picture on Flickr is realy nice. Thanks for the linked content.
Thanks a lot. Download it if you want.
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Here is Five Lakes Valley, Tatras, Poland:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dolina+Pieciu+Stawow?content=164171&PHPSESSID=b469dd5d4850566d8a4471bbbab01b5f
„past there are more than one wallpaper available in plasma“ You know there is more than one now? The rest are hidden in plasma-workspace-wallpapers which for some reason is in svn http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/plasma-workspace-wallpapers/
oh I doesn’t know. thanks for the information
My submissions:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169304
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169305
Two photos taken in Kazan last summer. Both actually featuring mosques, well, I like the architecture and picture composition. Unsure religious stuff is any way good or bad, I myself are neither muslim nor religious.
Both are scalable, so the resolution is not a problem.
Andrew Lake said I should post this for 5.2, but I missed it. 🙂
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Mitzy?content=169315
Sorry for not posting the second one on opendesktop, I hope dA works as well.
http://white-dawn.deviantart.com/art/Diagonal-Stripes-452867951?q=gallery%3Awhite-dawn%2F22128413&qo=3
sorry I made yesterday the wallpapers for plasma 5.3 wallpaper package (hope they will be in the beta). can you send me the scalable image from your wallpaper that I can prepare them. you can also submitt them by yourself (I don’t have a dev. account). It would be a pleasure to have your wallpapers in the package.
thanks
Andreas
Hello ! Here my contributions, shots from my Iceland trips :
Landmannalaugar by F208
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169322
Sunset at Borgarnes
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169323
Skógafoss
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169324
Enjoy !
good that you were on vacation 🙂
Here are some more.
Beach in Leba:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Beach+in+Leba?content=169330
and Path to Kopiec Kraka
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Path+to+Kopiec+Kraka?content=169331
Somewhere Between the Leaves:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Somewhere+Between+the+Leaves?content=169332
Alps Paradiski
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Alps+Paradiski?content=169334
Cottage under Jungfrau
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Cottage+under+Jungfrau?content=169335
Walk
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Walk?content=169336
Snow Blow Under Tatranska Lomnica
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Snow+Blow+under+Tatranska+Lomnica?content=169337
Over the Clouds (Tatras)
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Over+the+Clouds+%28Tatras%29?content=169338
So I also have to look at some nice wallpaper pictures hope you like them
All together (two pages!)
http://opendesktop.org/usermanager/search.php?xsortmode=new&action=contents&username=andreaskai&page=0
House in the Forest
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/House+in+the+Forest?content=169350
Forest walk
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Forest+walk?content=169348
Fog in the Forest (for weather wallpaper)
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Fog+in+the+Forest?content=169347
Field
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Field?content=169346
Swan kids
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=169360
Winter in Vienna
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Winter+in+Vienna?content=169359
Deer
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Deer?content=169358
White Flowers
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/White+Flower?content=169357
Vienna
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Vienna?content=169356
Squirrel
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Squirrel?content=169355
Slug
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Slug?content=169354
Slug
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Slug?content=169353
Raindrop
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Raindrop?content=169352
Leopard
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Leopard?content=169351
Great white Heron
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Great+white+Heron?content=169349
Corn
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Corn?content=169345
Bird
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Bird?content=169343
Blue Flower
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Blue+Flower?content=169344
The contest is a complete success. Since now we have 66 wallpapers. Thats great and you have more than one week to send additional wallpapers.
to move the wallpapers to opendesktop.org is realy great, because plasma can’t offer all wallpapers BUT when the wallpapers are uploaded at opendesktop.org each user can use it and YOU can rate also your best wallpapers so the plasma and VDG members know what the community think.
So search your hard disk or go to vacation to find nice wallpapers upload them to opendesktop.org and leve the link here.
To have an overview for all contest wallpapers I move them the our owncloud share:
https://share.kde.org/public.php?service=gallery&t=8d9505862e1edadf86280ef1963897b2#
Hi, have you uploaded all submissions yet? Cause I think there is one of mine missing on owncloud. It’s that one:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Helios?content=169274
Thanks for checking.
Kind Regards
I recently made the final switch from Windows to Arch plus KDE. I got tired of the default 3 or so images that came with the plasma 5 package. So I got up and made my own.
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169402
Peach tree in bloom with a common fly gathering nectar.
I’d like to submit some more Wallpapers:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169409
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Fog?content=169408
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Snail?content=169407
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Shroom?content=169406
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Rooftop?content=169404
My contribution:
Barra Grande Beach: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169420
Barra Grande is a brazilian beach 🙂
Yellowstone
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Yellowstone?content=169455
Sunset
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Sunset?content=169454
Spray
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Spray?content=169453
Puffin
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Puffin?content=169452
Lighthouse
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Lighthouse?content=169451
Sea in the winter
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=169450
Boat and water
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Boat+and+water?content=169449
KDE Constellation
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=169477
Realy great work outthere. I just registered only to vote for some of this beutifull photos!
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Here is a proposal featuring Konqui, 100% made in Krita 😉
http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Flying+Konqui+wallpaper?content=174217
my christmas card from last year 🙂
Yes it is! Sorry for posting it here by mistake, that was meant of course for the 5.5 contest page.
(sorry wrong post, was meant for the 5.5 contest…)