I think that Debian, the universal operating system don't have need only of a pretty wallpaper or splash from a "genius" artist. Debian is maintained and developed by many peoples, the packages are an example of quality produced with the community collaboration.
A sporadic and spontaneous contribute is good but don't solve the problem to create a coherent and quality look and feel or a strong identity for the new desktop users for a long time, an error example is a GDM theme that I've created some time ago, I'm created and tested it on my computer with my 1024x768 resolution but with others resolutions it didn't work well and for time reasons I don't update it. In the same way I think that the contest is not the just way because the perception of what is pretty or not is relative and subjective the very problem is the quality of the user experience that can be solved only with the community collaboration, Tango is a good example of high quality "collaborative artwork" based on some guidelines. For these reasons I'm propose a new project to solve this "bug", some months ago I had already started it http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debianseyes/, this is the first theme draft/example/incomplete to populate it http://mockuplab.googlepages.com/DebiansEyes-Preview.svg. P.S. Sorry for the bad english.... -- Mariano Viola @ mockup lab - communication design web: http://mockuplab.blogspot.com mail/talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
