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Idea #4088: Make every wallpaper as striking as the 8.04 Heron one

Written by belovedmonster the 10 Mar 08 at 14:51. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Enough with the OSX style swirls. From now on lets have a striking image FOR EVERY RELEASE. The current 8.04 wallpaper is just so much more stylish and rememberable than generic swirls.

My suggestion would be to make each wallpaper tie in with the animal name. Like there were some pretty cool Gibson graphics being used on tshirts and the like but why couldn't they have been used as part of the wallpaper? They would have been just as striking as the new Heron one.

I think there is perhaps a side benefit to using the animal name as every graphical designer gets 8 months heads up on the next name and hence the next theme of the graphic, so there should be no reason why come release time you wont have a bunch of cool graphics to choose from.

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Written by belovedmonster the 10 Mar 08 at 14:51.
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fwsquatch wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 16:38
I love the idea. The Heron wallpaper is VERY nice.

jdfoote wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 17:29
Amen - the Heron desktop is pretty dang sweet.

fabioamd87 wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 18:00
Hardy heron wallpaper is cool!

CaioAlonso wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 18:10
Totally agree, enough with those abstract wallpapers.

solarwind wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 18:46
Can someone upload the Hardy Heron wallpaper?

FrankQuist wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 19:03
I agree with the general idea of coupling every Ubuntu release's art to the animal from the codename. It makes every release more recognizable and is good for branding. Better than having the animal only represented in the name.

Gutsy's wallpaper looked like a Vista lookalike. Please don't just copy other desktops.

nvivo wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 20:16
Can someone post an URL to this wallpaper?

Jarvis wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 21:08
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/9395/wartyfinalubuntujp5.png

BungaMan wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 21:13
love the wallpaper, excellent idea

k99goran wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 01:05
It's a nice departure from the old Brown Vista look.

Madsrh wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 09:39
This is a great idea! It also makes it easier for new users to know witch version they are running - they will not be in doubt when they see the horns of Ibex ;-)

I've already used the Hardy Heron artwork for a 8.04 cover:
http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/03/hardy-heron-cover.html

mrbeardy wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 11:12
Another link to the wall paper:
http://flickr.com/photos/22788467@N04/2308605907/

belovedmonster wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 11:20
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I've already used the Hardy Heron artwork for a 8.04 cover:
http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/03/hardy-heron-cover.html

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WOW!!!!!! This is head and shoulders better than any linux DVD covers I've seen. This shows the potential of what you can do with one strong graphic used across many aspects of the Ubuntu branding.

dry_carton wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 12:24
Yep, the hardy heron wallpaper rocks (the new human-murrine theme too)! Would be very cool if the wallpapers were themed their release's animal too. :D

dry_carton wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 12:25
(sorry for double-posting)

And then the "old" wallpapers could be released into a Classic Ubuntu Wallpapers package or something like that. ;)

pickture wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 19:21
Am I the only one who doesn't want animals on my desktop?

gedeon wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 15:03
I personally find that wallpaper awful.

slacher wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 16:09
I don't like it either. I prefer brighter abstract wallpapers.

FuturePilot wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 05:32
I think it would be great to have a wallpaper for each release to be styled in the same way the Hardy one is, but with the animal that the release was named after on it.

I love the Heron wallpaper.

larry19l wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 07:00
The new HH graphic is great, BUT ...
Where is a damn disc label !!!
It's hard to promote Ubuntu with a disc labeled with a sharpie !!!

I would like to see a full color label and a lightscribe label !

Magnes wrote on the 15 Oct 08 at 16:42
http://www.wallpapers-room.com - here are some great, great wallpapers. Just talk to the guys who made them and use them in new Ubuntu. (sort by most downloaded!)


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