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KDE SVG Wallpaper Competition

Posted by michael on from the swooshy dept.

Carewolf writes "KDE's 'looky' has a new challenge. This time to contribute SVG wallpapers for KDE 3.4. The four best wallpapers will ship with KDE 3.4 when released next year and the best gets a choice of gifts from corefunction.com. Join now to help make KDE 3.4 the best looking KDE release ever."

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  1. Good for them by miyako · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's nice to see SVG wallpaper support to compliment the icon support, I hope that they get some really good submissions, I'll probably submit an entry myself.
    One problem with KDE has always been, IMHO, it's choice of default themes. There are a lot of really awesome themes out there, but the KDE team always seems to use a rather "bleh" default theme.

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    1. Re:Good for them by Carewolf · · Score: 2, Informative

      It wasn't merged in KDE 3.3 because the translators didn't want to redo every screenshot for the new theme. At the time it was decided to postpone changes to major releases; that would be KDE 4.0.

      Since then we have go a new tool that automatically generates new screenshots in all languages. With this the objections died and Plastik became default.

  2. SVG works with also Gnome by dolmen.fr · · Score: 2, Informative

    SVG wallpapers work also in Gnome 2.8 (and probably earlier) on my Gentoo. Too bad the Gnome art gallery only proposes bitmaps.

    Vector wallpapers and icons: at least two really cool desktop features where Linux based destkops are in advance.

  3. Re:Perhaps a stupid question... by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You don't. SVG is scalable, so an SVG document can be rendered at any pixel size. Just make sure you use the right aspect ratio, and use cm, in, ft, or even or km as your measurement unit. Whatever floats your boat.

    Don't make 1024x768 wallpapers anyway, make them 1600x1200 and scale them down. That way everybody can use them.

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  4. Re:Perhaps a stupid question... by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Informative

    The contest rules specify 1024x768 resolution. Of course it can be scaled to whatever you want, but SVG images have a native "size", and 1024x768 will be it for this contest.

    The reason for it shouldn't be hard to understand: not everyone has a 1600x1200 resolution. Scaling a large image down to a small size can make the image unusable, particularly if it had text and fine details. By specifying 1024x768 resolution, the wallpaper will look fine for all users.

    p.s. This scaling problem shows up most with SVG icons because they are so small. It's the reason why so many SVG icon sets are unusable, because the authors designed them for 128x128, but you still using 16x16 on your toolbars.

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    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!