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tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 01 May 2011, 02:10
by francois
With the upcoming version 1.0 of porteus 64 and 32 bit. There is a need to get really nice wallpapers. The sites for such images are not always equal in quality and there is even in the good ones a quite variable span of tasty pictures. I propose that you share within this post the links that you have found for your favorite wallpapers.

You could also list you favorite wallpaper site.

Try to present images that are as big as possible so that they could cover widescreens (1900 x 1200 or more)

Please classify the wallpaper that you propose nder one of the following categories:
-linux logos
-penguins (a special animal to the linux community)
-sunset and sunrise
-mountains
-countryside
-seashore
-animal
-plants
-cities and buildings
-figurative art

In addition an overall appreciation of the site would be a good thing in words and with a rating.
-modern art


Additional categories are welcome and will be added as they are suggested, as much as they are not redundant.

Example 1:

seashore:
http://www.linuxwallpapers.org/linux/sl ... -1600.html
Bad penguin:
http://www.linuxwallpapers.org/linux/black-linux.jpg
linux:
http://www.linuxwallpapers.org/linux/slides/100.html

Were found on the following site:
http://www.linuxwallpapers.org/
The quality of the wallpaper offered is quite good (3/5).

Example 2:

sunrise or sunset:
http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com/ ... 20Lake.htm
http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com/ ... ntains.htm

Were found on the following site:
http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com
The quality of the wallpapers offered are of an excellent one (5/5).
(However,they have their little logo at bottom right, but I imagine that this could be corrected within gimp)

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 01 May 2011, 09:25
by Hamza
This is good idea.

Could you post some wallpaper (only the direct links), and the community will see if they are good or no.

I hope, we will have a good wallpapers for next version.

Regards,

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 01 May 2011, 17:21
by francois
Except for the general links mentioned, If you click on the links, for example:
sunrise or sunset:
http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com/ ... 20Lake.htm
http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com/ ... ntains.htm

You get there directly. Unless you meant something I did not understand. Is there a way to make them available as an image only without resorting to the site hosting?

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 01 May 2011, 17:48
by Hamza
@francois

your links were broken when you have posted them without using URL Tag.

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 01 May 2011, 18:00
by francois
Thanks I just caught that one. We were always wondering on the slax forum, why these hyperlinks were not responding correctly. Everything has been corrected. Also when editing post I just found all these interesting functions at the top of the writing area. Including the code that I just found yesterday.

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 02 May 2011, 13:52
by brokenman
I think i have mentioned it before but i'll say it again. A wallpaper is a personal thing so the one included in the 32bit will be a very basic one. It will be of a small file size. I think almost every user will change to a wallpaper that they prefer. This is a great thread for users to choose a wallpaper, although there is already a category in the forum for wallpapers/desktops.

From experience, what one person loves, another hates so for this reason the default wallpaper will be basic.

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 04 May 2011, 02:34
by francois
@brokenman:
The word tasteful had no hidden meaning. I did not saw your thread: Some wallpaper for download. It is very good and deserves to be hyperlinked here:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=390

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 04 May 2011, 04:59
by Hamza
I think, it's better to make a gallery of wallpapers.

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 10 May 2011, 21:12
by brokenman
Some more wallpapers added: Click here to see them

Image

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 10 May 2011, 22:11
by Ahau
brokenman, I love that one (even just seeing it on my blackberry). Can't wait to install it :)

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 11 May 2011, 04:43
by Hamza
Wow, That's a great wallpaper. I think, we neeed this wallpaper on the x32, and another on x64 (i like the black with link)

Brokenman, Great Job !

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 11 May 2011, 08:55
by fanthom
i have decided already - will use "Underwater ray of light" as default :)
thanks once again brokenman.

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 11 May 2011, 11:22
by Hamza
@fanthom,
that's my personal wallpaper :)

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 13 May 2011, 11:03
by Blaze
Brokenman - nice wallpaper.

This is my wallpaper:
Image - click for full details

Добавлено спустя 1 день 18 часов 45 минут 47 секунд:
The 'Underwater ray of light' look bad for my resolution (1600x900) of monitor :(
Image

My wallpaper look good for my resolution (1600x900) of monitor
Image

Re: tasteful wallpapers

Posted: 17 May 2011, 09:40
by Rava
Some of the wallpapers from http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com seem to be Witless7 themepacks, like these ones:
http://www.free-wallpaper-download.com/ ... mes-3D.htm
I was interested in the "3D World" one and all I got was this:

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bash-4.1$ file 3D\ world.themepack 
3D world.themepack: Microsoft Cabinet archive data, 192164 bytes, 2 files
bash-4.1$ ls -l 3D\ world.themepack 
-rw-r--r-- 1 rava rava 192164 May 17 11:38 3D world.themepack