Comments on: We want your artwork in Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/ David Siegel Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:16:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Duda Nogueira: My mother on Ubuntu Artwork Karmic Release Shortlist!! | L&C Tech Talk http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 Duda Nogueira: My mother on Ubuntu Artwork Karmic Release Shortlist!! | L&C Tech Talk Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:01:37 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1853 [...] time ago, I read David Siegel’s call for the Karmic backgrounds contest. I am not the kind of good photographer guy (still learning!), but my mother is (at least I think [...] [...] time ago, I read David Siegel’s call for the Karmic backgrounds contest. I am not the kind of good photographer guy (still learning!), but my mother is (at least I think [...]

]]> By: David Siegel: Karmic Desktop Contest Script | Full-Linux.com http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 David Siegel: Karmic Desktop Contest Script | Full-Linux.com Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:02:11 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1667 [...] wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install [...] [...] wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install [...]

]]> By: John Stowers http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1658 John Stowers Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:09:24 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1658 Can Ubuntu please ship at least one animated background? Fedora seems to have been taking advantage of this feature for ages. Can Ubuntu please ship at least one animated background?

Fedora seems to have been taking advantage of this feature for ages.

]]> By: Rahul Sundaram http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1504 Rahul Sundaram Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:31:33 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1504 Aigars Mahinovs, Long before Windows 7, ever since Fedora 8 release, Fedora has included the ability to have dynamic wallpapers. Fedora developers have pushed the feature into upstream GNOME as well so every distribution can take advantage of it. Some like Mandriva has. Others have not. It's their choice. Aigars Mahinovs,

Long before Windows 7, ever since Fedora 8 release, Fedora has included the ability to have dynamic wallpapers. Fedora developers have pushed the feature into upstream GNOME as well so every distribution can take advantage of it. Some like Mandriva has. Others have not. It’s their choice.

]]> By: Zenek http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1503 Zenek Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:47:02 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1503 Upstream (Gnome) wallpapers are also great! (but sadly not installed by default...) Upstream (Gnome) wallpapers are also great! (but sadly not installed by default…Wink

]]> By: Paul Kishimoto http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 Paul Kishimoto Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:29:19 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1497 (via Planet Ubuntu) Aigars' idea is very doable. There are already programs (drapes and my favourite wallpaper-tray) which rotate wallpaper; several ways to access Flickr exist (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=flickr&searchon=names&suite=jaunty&section=all) and a cron job could serve to trigger the fetching. Go for it :) (via Planet Ubuntu) Aigars’ idea is very doable. There are already programs (drapes and my favourite wallpaper-tray) which rotate wallpaper; several ways to access Flickr exist (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=flickr&searchon=names&suite=jaunty&section=all) and a cron job could serve to trigger the fetching.

Go for it Smile

]]> By: Joseph Smidt http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 Joseph Smidt Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:15:38 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1494 I'm glad to see they're getting some good community involvement. I've always thought each Ubuntu release should have a community theme (best theme from the community), and a Canonical theme which would be default. I’m glad to see they’re getting some good community involvement.

I’ve always thought each Ubuntu release should have a community theme (best theme from the community), and a Canonical theme which would be default.

]]> By: david http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1493 david Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:59:17 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1493 Aigars, that is awesome. It may be too late to do something like that for Karmic, but would you be willing to investigate it a bit? See if there is any existing Linux software to do what you suggest; if not, I bet a simple five-line python script would do the trick. Aigars, that is awesome. It may be too late to do something like that for Karmic, but would you be willing to investigate it a bit? See if there is any existing Linux software to do what you suggest; if not, I bet a simple five-line python script would do the trick.

]]> By: Aigars Mahinovs http://davidsiegel.org/karmic-backgrounds-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-1491 Aigars Mahinovs Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:55:18 +0000 http://davidsiegel.org/?p=408#comment-1491 Windows 7 has a setting to have a dynamic background that changes over time and gets some new wallpapers from the web from time to time. It would be very nice if we could have a setting in Ubuntu that would draw a semirandom image from the Flickr pool every week. It should be set up so that all Ubuntu computers set to this setting would get the same image at the same time, to show a united image flow. Windows 7 has a setting to have a dynamic background that changes over time and gets some new wallpapers from the web from time to time. It would be very nice if we could have a setting in Ubuntu that would draw a semirandom image from the Flickr pool every week. It should be set up so that all Ubuntu computers set to this setting would get the same image at the same time, to show a united image flow.

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