New background for 4.2?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:11:58AM +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >Brian,
> >
> >Oki, I've reverted the colors to the previous values, but it would be
> >great if we could keep the xfce-smoke.png image by default (please try
> >it first :)
> 
> I think that xfce-smoke requires darker colors to look good. Brians 
> light colors make it look odd. So, I've combined Brians dark color and 
> Oliviers dark color and the result is:
> 
>  http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/defaultbg.png
> 
> Still, this looks like Aqua, but it very good for a release. If anybody 
> has suggestions for the default background, reply within the next 3-4 
> hours - until ~15:00h (CET) - because then I'll move the release tag.
> 

I tried something this morning:

http://www.xfce.org/~jasper/4.2-smoke.jpg


Attached is the desktop.xml if you want to use it. I agree with the
requirement for darker colors and I tried to find a compromise that would
still let the mouse logo have enough contrast. Use whatever you prefer.

	Jasper