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[Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great work!

I really like the idea of the random evolving wallpaper, and your nice hack
proves that the desired effect does work in practice.

One word of warning - if  this feature finally gets included in Ubuntu,
please make sure that the orange highlights are always kept subtle and never
run out of control.

In Owens' demo the generated wallpaper looks great mainly because it
contains very few and faded orange splashes. On the other hand, the original
wallpaper that generated so much controversy contains no less than three
big, highly saturated stains.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/ubuntu-1010-default-wallpaper.html

The new Ubuntu color palette takes an aggressive stance by combining purple
and orange. While this combination can achieve a vibrating effects in the
hands of a skilled designer, it's simply too risky to use in a random
generator. So please put a constraint so that the orange highlights are
always restricted to low saturations.

You know what would be great? Having the random wallpaper to use other
palettes, as defined by the colors in the chosen interface theme, with the
same highlights in the same position of the fresh install wallpaper. This
would allow for even more variability of the shared screenshots (the
original goal of this idea) from the first day, while keeping the branding
still recognizable.


On 3 September 2010 19:51, Martin Owens wrote:

> Hey Joseph, Mark and Otto,
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:52 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD,
> > what
> > works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather wide.
>
> Using testing and svg and python hacking I've put together a
> demonstration which works on the default lucid install:
>
> http://doctormo.org/2010/09/03/random-genetic-wallpaper/
>
> So I may have been too hasty with my initial concerns. I think so long
> as the svgs limits are known, it should be possible to do something even
> more interesting than what I have done here.
>
> Martin,
>
>
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