Edubuntu 10.04 Wallpaper

A few days ago Stephane Graber posted a screenshot of the current Edubuntu desktop and I was very pleased to see that one of my wallpaper suggestion is being used.

UPDATE:  I sincerely apologize for not adding the well deserved credit for the original photo to marxicoli.

Edubuntu desktop - daily build Feb 17, 2010

The screenshot also shows the new Edubuntu Menu Editor.

Wallpaper Artwork

I've been trying to create a wallpaper for Edubuntu. So far I have a few suggestions, but nothing that is good enough to be used as default wallpaper. Anyway, I just wanted to share my four current suggestion with you.

You can grab the .JPG versions in 2560x1600 px here:

• ...dark-glow.jpg
• ...gray.jpg
• ...rainbow.jpg
• ...tree.jpg

X-Splash For Edubuntu 10.04

After talking with Stéphane Graber at UDS Dallas about new artwork for Edubuntu 10.04, I've created a very simple X-splash throbber mockup.



There's a lot of other artwork related tasks to work on for 10.04 as Edubuntu will have the following needs for the next release:

Main artwork

• Wallpaper (at least one, should be 1920x1440 as the Ubuntu one)
• Gnome/GTK theme (might be the same as Ubuntu)
• Icon theme (might be the same as Ubuntu or our current one)
• GDM theme (or at least background, depending on how we can customize it nowadays)
• Splash (xsplash + usplash/plymouth depending on what's used for Ubuntu)
• LDM background (for LTSP, same requirements as last time) (we'll need an Ubuntu and an Edubuntu background here)

Additional artwork

• Theme for KDE (wallpaper, kdm theme, ...)

Stéphane Graber will create a complete wiki page listing the needs for each of these items (size, resolution, restrictions, ...) and will then announce it on both ubuntu-artwork and the edubuntu mailing-lists. As you can see from the list, there' s a lot of things to work on, and Edubuntu is looking for all the help they can get.


Source: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2009-December/003199.html