semi-off: my nameday and Paltanen

[Alexander Toresson]

On 1/8/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> On 1/7/2006 10:57 AM, SZERVÁC Attila wrote:
> >  Hi Dear Devs !
>
> Hey!
>
> >  This is a beautiful day & Happy New Year 4 You !
> >
> >  Reason:
> >
> >  This is my NameDay (like Attila the Powerful Hun King) & today Pekka
> > Hartikka submitted a lot of long-awaited real `Nature' backgrounds 2
> > xfce-look.org including the beautiful `Paltanen' lake image:
> >
> >  http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php?content=33461
> >
> >  and others under GNU GPL license :-))
> >
> >  I think, among of standard Xfce backgrounds must be a few `Nature'
> > backrounds (like Flower.jpg) and not just Xfce-Mouse backgrounds, 'cause
> > `Nature' backgrounds are extremely popular.
> >
> >  I know, this is the early consolidation stage of 4.4 alpha1, but I'd like
> > strongly suggest this
> >
> >  http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php?content=33461
> >
> >  beautiful image -> standard Xfce backgrounds. Brian ??
> >
> >  THX, Devs 4 Your audience & beautiful coding !
> >
> >  sas aka satie, Hungarian Xfce translator :-)
>
> Sounds like a cool idea to me.  It would be nice if they could somehow
> be made Xfce-ish, maybe by integrating the mouse somewhere.  Or maybe
> not: I know when I find random backdrops, it kinda annoys me if there's
> some branded portion to it that I don't care about.
>
> So... which ones go in, and which don't?  I'd rather not put too many of
> them in since that'll increase the tarball size by quite a bit.  Or
> maybe just include a single default backdrop with xfdesktop, and create
> an xfce4-desktop-backgrounds package?  Though I know we've been trying
> to decrease the number of packages, not increase...
>
>         -brian
>

Wouldn't this be a great opportunity to revive and update the
xfce4-artwork package at xfce-goodies.berlios.de?

Regards, Alexander Toresson