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May 12 2023
Picked some artwork on Rawpixel for consideration:
https://www.rawpixel.com/community-board/1668812/wallpaper-candidates
May 10 2023
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:
May 9 2023
Oh yeah, and our current default wallpaper is based on an image using the Unsplash license. Link.
Apr 21 2021
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:
Jan 10 2020
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.
Jan 8 2020
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: