"Asking a designer who has worked for 10-20yrs with proprietary software to relearn their skills is not a reasonable task. And bordering on being unfair to the designer."
well, pay other designer who know GIMP, Inkscape, krita, etc. I suggest the author of this tutorial: http://verysimpledesigns.com/vectors/inkscape-tutorial-abstract-wallpaper.html He uses Inkscape on Windows, but you can ship him a Lucid live CD :) "To repeat , Kindly do not change the task *unless* you can point to some Ubuntu guideline/rule/COC that mentions the artwork should be done only with free software" This is no matter of guidelines. And this is not only matter of free software. This is matter of reliability of your OS. Would you use an operating system that needs another OS to be developed? I presume Apple does Mac OS X wallpapers and artworks on a Mac, not on a Windows PC. Canonical wants to imitate and compete with Apple. Well, it's time to begin. Use Ubuntu to build Ubuntu. Last but not least: if there aren't guidelines about "making Ubuntu with Ubuntu" the status of this bug is "invalid", not "fixed". -- Ubuntu wallpaper called warty-final-ubuntu.png is made with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357218 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs