We should prolly also loop in existing hardware partners such as Slimbook and Tuxedo Computers, at least just so that they know this is happening and to help with having unified KDE brand awareness.

This sounds very similar to the KDE Apps Initiative started by @ognarb :
https://carlschwan.eu/2024/05/31/kde-apps-initiative/

In T10220#291161, @heldaeus wrote:

I like several of those as art pieces but as wallpapers I’m not sure they will work. In this task there doesn’t seem to be any mention of scanned artwork either, so I think we should focus of photographic images instead. I appreciate your culling efforts though.

Picked some artwork on Rawpixel for consideration:
https://www.rawpixel.com/community-board/1668812/wallpaper-candidates

We have time. Let's pick out the wallpapers one at a time and do testing on them thoroughly. I have access to every computer and monitor under the sun at my work so testing for different screens and resolutions won't be a problem.

A new consideration that wasn't present when this task was introduced is the presence of wallpaper-based accent colour tinting. Default wallpapers prolly should also help showcase that feature, by having prominent colours that Plasma will pick up well.

A proposed set of possible wallpapers with Public Domain or CC0 licensing:

Oh yeah, and our current default wallpaper is based on an image using the Unsplash license. Link.

In T10220#291030, @heldaeus wrote:

• 3 Landscape
• 3 Abstract
• 3 Architectural
• 3 Illustrated
• 3 Texture/Patterns

In T10220#291021, @heldaeus wrote:

Unsplash License

License FAQ

Terms of service

It seems that the Unsplash license is very similar to CC0 expect that Unsplash "does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service".

Their FAQ clarifies this. They give two examples:

Mass scraping or crawling images from Unsplash and using those photos to build a site just like Unsplash where your users could download, copy, modify, distribute or use photos originally found on Unsplash, for personal or commercial use.

Using Unsplash content to submit it as your own on any other photo sharing or stock photography website;

I wonder if this policy conflicts with Plasma's wallpaper download hub? I'm doubtful since it isn't trying to be "just like Unsplash" (though I have no clue how they're defining that) but we may need to contact them to make sure.

disrooter's mockups look quite nice and is a good basis to proceed from. However, many of the settings exposed in them could prolly be put elsewhere or grouped under a menu instead. The main view should at least have a desktop grid and activity tabs with wallpaper thumbnails below them (like in the mockups). Window search could be done in a couple of ways, such as:

In T12444#217307, @raddison wrote:

In T12444#217286, @linuxpusher wrote:

Please understand that the Windows users still on 7 are very likely to be quite averse to change. That means getting them to switch operating systems is also quite the challenge. Having a theme that apes the look of Windows 7 helps significantly with convincing them to switch to Linux.

Also IMHO casual consumers should be able to easily understand the concept of a desktop environment being separate from the underlying OS. Most of them are already exposed to Android, where the different manufacturer skins are analogous to DEs. Explain it to them like that and they'll get it fairly quickly; I've done that numerous times before and it has never failed yet.

I understand you but it looks like Unfair Use to me. Have you consulted https://ev.kde.org/?

Please understand that the Windows users still on 7 are very likely to be quite averse to change. That means getting them to switch operating systems is also quite the challenge. Having a theme that apes the look of Windows 7 helps significantly with convincing them to switch to Linux.

The article link should be updated to this:
https://dot.kde.org/2020/01/08/plasma-safe-haven-windows-7-refugees

What's up with the article link? It doesn't work here: