New background for 4.2?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Mon Jan 10 11:49:16 CET 2005


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:35:25AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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.
> 

*ahem*
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE mcs-option SYSTEM "mcs-option.dtd">

<mcs-option>
	<option name="brightness_0_0" type="int" value="0"/>
	<option name="color1_0_0" type="color" value="           35530,           41214,           51361,           65535"/>
	<option name="color2_0_0" type="color" value="           21445,           26794,           36259,           65535"/>
	<option name="colorstyle_0_0" type="int" value="2"/>
	<option name="imagepath_0_0" type="string" value="/opt/xfce4-cvs/share/xfce4/backdrops/xfce-smoke.png"/>
	<option name="imagestyle_0_0" type="int" value="3"/>
	<option name="showdm" type="int" value="1"/>
	<option name="showdmi" type="int" value="1"/>
	<option name="showimage_0_0" type="int" value="1"/>
	<option name="showwl" type="int" value="1"/>
	<option name="showwli" type="int" value="1"/>
</mcs-option>


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