On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:51 +0000, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:

yep, we have a support for slideshow in Plasma. But it depends if it's just slideshow or time based wp change as we saw before in Gnome. I was thinking about implemnting it to Plasma but after aseigo's review of the old one Gnome XML file I decided better not do it. Even aseigo is still waiting for implementation :)

We were thinking it would just be a simple slideshow. No time-based transition effects.

Just one thing - as Kevin pointed out - the extended slideshow wps should be in separate subpackage and the default package should be the single one due to live image space constraints. Especially for Plasma spin.

Okay, shipping four wallpapers by default was not a problem in earlier Fedoras when we've done this before (at least on the desktop spin.) We did ship the four wallpapers, which were the same wallpaper with different colorations. Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 are some examples of this. We didn't know it would be a problem if we gave advance notice; it seems even with advance notice it's a problem, so I guess we have no choice - one wallpaper it is then.

Another important thing is - we need some simple designs. I really like Fedora designs as these aren't usually the boring abstract something like in other distros but today with Gnome Shell, the Plasma Netbook brother (I'm surprised how similar these two are, very nice for touchable netbooks) - the desktop now serves for activities (both Shell and Plasma ones). The Plasma Active is going to be even more using the desktop... So this is something you, as Design team should consider. But still I hope we can have amazing designs, not just colorful spits :)

This is a good point, but this is probably not the appropriate thread to bring that up. Please start a new thread on the design-team list for this or you can of course provide artists feedback directly on the artboard - thanks! :)

~m