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In the meantime: @Freja : I literally agree with @Adrian

(just the words are funny, that's what I laugh :) )

One thing I will never quarrel about in any Distro is the wallpaper. Unless the devs have sneakily added a feature to stop me substituting my own!

davemx wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:48 pm One thing I will never quarrel about in any Distro is the wallpaper. Unless the devs have sneakily added a feature to stop me substituting my own!

I agree. Some people are ridiculous. There is no point on criticizing the wall paper because it's easy to change it.

davemx wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:48 pm One thing I will never quarrel about in any Distro is the wallpaper. Unless the devs have sneakily added a feature to stop me substituting my own!

I changed it straightaway, but on the first bootup MX21 is gorgeous. First impressions mean something.

I love the fact that even though I change the background,
I can always see the Wildflower identification at boot & login.
It is reassuring that I haven't broken it yet. :)
Thanks, to the devs and @Freja.

It's really not important at all and it's way past time to talk about it now, but for the record, I didn't really like the default wallpaper chosen for MX 21. Not necessarily because it has flowers in it, but simply because I've seen much better flower pics.

Here's a nice macro shot for example from Windows 8.1 Professional.



You could also do a landscape with wildflowers. This is a picture from Wolchulsan, South Korea taken by NathanielMerz.



EDIT: Is there any way in phpBB to resize these for display in the forums?

EDIT2: Fixed the image sizes.

@Arnox

Lol, @richb is not going to be happy with you at all!!

People have no idea how much time, work, trial, error and 98%-complete-and-then-abandoned ideas come into play when preparing the aesthetic of a Distro especially one as high profile as MX. I'm sure @asqwerth invested more hours in simply selecting the User wallpaper submissions than we could believe let alone pulling together an entire incredible theme.. A Linux reviewer or critic who complains about the wallpaper, or the icon theme or the system font is not worth listening to... How can somebody who doesn't even have the knowledge or expertise to do a couple of mouse clicks and change any of these things to their liking expect to be listened to as an authority on anything but slackerdom..

Sure we all have opinions and preferences but a Ferrari is a Ferrari whether it's painted red or blue..

Yes. There are many excellent photographers and CG artists in the world. I understanding, I can not always win "simple quality" of world's art athletes.

So what is the goodness of Freja? It's probably that my work is unique. However, there are likes and dislikes for unique works. MX is a global OS, so my work doesn't always fit.

This is a wallpaper that was newly designed in consideration of such a series of flows. But, I still need to evolve further.



Basically, in order to make MX the best in the world, asqwerth needs to select the best match for the product from all MX community artists.(Also, as a side note, I'm not interested in "honor of choice".)

AVLinux wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:44 pm A Linux reviewer or critic who complains about the wallpaper, or the icon theme or the system font is not worth listening to... How can somebody who doesn't even have the knowledge or expertise to do a couple of mouse clicks and change any of these things to their liking expect to be listened to as an authority on anything but slackerdom.

Again, the wallpaper is really not a big problem in any way whatsoever, and it would indeed be incredibly stupid to slam a distro just because the default aesthetic is not to one's liking, so I absolutely agree with that, but what I see personally is what I see, and I can't really give anything more than that in explanation.

Freja wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:05 pm This is a wallpaper that was newly designed in consideration of such a series of flows. But, I still need to evolve further.

Actually, I really like this wallpaper.

@Arnox
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