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GNU Wallpapers
- Jerry2 8y agoSome of them are quite nice but unfortunately none of them are higher res than 1080p.
- BlackLotus89 8y agoWhat thinkpad that runs libreboot has a higher resolution?
- benj111 8y agoAm I missing something with the onion wallpaper? https://www.gnu.org/graphics/plant-onion.html https://www.gnu.org/graphics/plant-onion.html It seems to be more about actual onions than a tor thing?! Edit: Doh, reread the description "Gardeners and tor users..." Thanks for the replies though.
- dmos62 8y agoPlanting onions is easy, running Tor relays is easy too. The onions in the picture use the same palette as Tor's https://www.torproject.org/images/tor-logo.png https://www.torproject.org/images/tor-logo.png
- BlackLotus89 8y agoThe color scheme seems pretty similar to that of the tor logo so I think this is a "call to arms" and is a pro - host your own tor nodes - message.
- NoPicklez 8y agoThey look like shit
- lkdjjdjjjdskjd 8y agoThey all seem to be incredibly ugly. The 90ies called and want their bad designs back?
- niceworkbuddy 8y agoIt feels like early 2000s.
- gattilorenz 8y agoThe design of the website and of these wallpapers communicates this: we're better because we're free, who cares about the looks. I do appreciate the GNU tools and whatnot, but it is hard to "convert" everyday users with the moral argument.
- _ZeD_ 8y agothe fact that it's free software is in fact the core of the message, so I think the design correctly conveys it succesfully
- josefx 8y agoAre bad and inconsistent design also core of the message? Because every single linked wallpaper page on that list has a different layout when they don't go directly to a wallpaper of unspecified size. Others have their sized versions listed directly inline and then we have the wallpapers hosted on an external server vs. hosted on gnu itself. It leaves a bad impression when they don't go the last 10% of the effort to present a clean site instead of an unorganized dump.
- pmilot 8y agoThe message content is fine, even laudable. It's the tone that rubs a lot of people the wrong way. I've been choosing gnu tools over non-free ones whenever I could for over ten years now, and I deeply believe in the GPL, but the condenscending attitude that a part of that community displays is annoying and counter-productive.
- bhhaskin 8y agoI am not sure the messaging is enough these days. Most software is "free" for the average user. There is a difference between free and "free" these days, and it's a message worth spreading.
- zapzupnz 8y agoHoly cow, these are hideous. Then again, the website itself isn't exactly a Renoir.
- SamWhited 8y agoIt's a little known fact that Renoir did web design on the side.
- self_awareness 8y agoIt doesn't communicate very well. All this website says is: you don't pay anything, so you're getting a sh__tty quality. Plus you have no right to want anything more. There are tons of good free high quality wallpapers on deviantart.com, and for those that aren't "free as in freedom", I think it's up to negotiation with the author of a particular wallpaper. Some of them will probably be delighted to be selected by gnu.org to be the producer of GNU-approved art.
- yorwba 8y ago> Some of them will probably be delighted to be selected by gnu.org to be the producer of GNU-approved art. They would have to select themselves. TFA is essentially fan art that happens to have the right size for a wallpaper, nothing more. I'm pretty sure the FSF doesn't have a marketing budget that'd allow commissioning artists for any significant number of "official" wallpapers.
- josefx 8y ago> Plus you have no right to want anything more. Some of the linked wallpapers do not have their source files linked. As far as I know the GPL requires that the preferred version of the source is also made available and neither png nor jpeg qualify for most image manipulation tools. At least a few have the xcf also linked.
- klez 8y agoWhy do you think they're GPL-licenced? Did I miss the license on the page? Also, if you read about the FSF they don't advocate for all non-software to be free. Some documentation from the FSF is not included in Debian because the Debian developers deemed it not free enough, because some parts are marked as non-modifiable.
- josefx 8y agoAt least this one is https://www.gnu.org/graphics/this-is-freedom-wallpaper.html https://www.gnu.org/graphics/this-is-freedom-wallpaper.html , stated below the image. However that brings up annother issue, which license applies to the images that do not have an explicit license stated? Is it the creative commons stated for the website itself and would this also apply to the externally hosted images?
- dmos62 8y agoThey're naive, non-professional, obviously from a different time, not too distracting and there's a strange proportion of people who can't help but point out that they don't like it. What else could you want? To go off on a parallel topic for a bit, I haven't used a desktop or a wallpaper for some years now and it's great. Both are a bad idea. The desktop is a magnet for sloppy organization. You'd be surprised just how much more organized and productive file system and shortcut usage gets if you turn off desktop icons. And a wallpaper is just distracting. I've never found a wallpaper that I didn't want to change after a while. I even tried minimal gradients. What ended up working perfect, as in I'll likely never change it, is a solid black wallpaper. Concerning not using a wallpaper, functional benefits aside, someone might think that this would take away the bling of an expensive laptop, but that's exactly what I find appealing about it. This way you're treating the device, not as a status or fashion statement, but as a functional tool.
- Klover 8y agoI personally like desktop icons because it’s a tool. It’s my working directory, where I put files and order and stack them. Disks are shown there, as they too are temporary things that I currently do things with. Like a real desktop! Maybe I should just mount the desktop folder in RAM. I do agree with the solid colour as background. The working files are my markup. I’d suggest maybe using #808080 instead, or a colour like I do. Just a bit more pleasant in my experience.
- lkdjjdjjjdskjd 8y agoI rarely ever see my desktop, because apps are usually maximized. Doesn't everybody do that? What kind of apps did people use back in the day when desktops weren't hidden all the time? Maybe the idea was to occasionally quit apps and open other ones, not to keep them all open at the same time?
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- sovande 8y ago> What kind of apps did people use back in the day when desktops weren't hidden all the time? Emacs to the left and one xterm window in the bottom right corner.
- Rjevski 8y agoIt would be better if they just linked to Unsplash.
- la_oveja 8y agothis one look like a windows 95 program installer splash screen: https://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.png https://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.png
- kieranph 8y agoI mean, Libreboot hasn't been updated since 2016, so it might as well be...
- intea 8y agorelated: https://www.gnu.org/music/ https://www.gnu.org/music/
- opencl 8y agoOpenBSD used to release a song along with every OS release, seems to have stopped last year with 6.2 though. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
- jordigh 8y agoNooo, they stopped? The release songs were really great, and I always looked forward to a new release song.
- Rjevski 8y agoOn one hand I respect the right to free speech and people doing whatever they want... but man, this is awful. They’re doing more harm to their brand by publishing this.
- egeozcan 8y agoThey are cute in a way, but that doesn't mean you are wrong: https://www.gnu.org/music/free-birthday-song.ogg https://www.gnu.org/music/free-birthday-song.ogg
- leemailll 8y agoIt looks just like never changed for 20 years. I've visited this page long time before, and still seems no serious effort for these except [this one](https://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.html https://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.html), which according to copyright notice have been there for 18 years.
- raverbashing 8y agoYeah, I didn't know what to expect. Nowadays my "wallpaper" is the terminal or browser app, maximized
- Fice 8y agoLooks like a collection of random contributions that were not evaluated for their aesthetic quality. For better examples of crowdsourced art see Fedora supplemental wallpapers: https://fedoramagazine.org/submissions-now-open-fedora-30-supplemental-wallpapers/ https://fedoramagazine.org/submissions-now-open-fedora-30-su.... Also, the GNU project appear to have capable designers: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
- jancsika 8y ago> Also, the GNU project appear to have capable designers: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ And still the images have little speckles and color bleed presumably left there from a poor quality scan/cleanup.
- herpes 8y agoAre you sure that's not an aesthetic choice? It looks so obvious that it must have been an intentional decision.
- offbytwo 8y agoGonna start using this one (https://www.gnu.org/graphics/I_run_GNU_by_GNUlancer.png https://www.gnu.org/graphics/I_run_GNU_by_GNUlancer.png) on my Windows PC at work
- meuk 8y agoWell, that's embarrassing.