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desktop wallpaper
Aug. 17th, 2008 07:47 pmI've used Torrent by PlasmaDesign as my desktop wallpaper for a couple of years, and I decided I wanted a change. It's remarkably hard to find a desktop background that does what I want - break up the visual monotony of a solid color, but at the same time, don't be excessively distracting, don't have lines of sharp contrast that impair ability to read text, etc.
You know, wallpaper. There are reasons why real-life wallpaper doesn't consist of, say, full-wall photographs of a pretty sunset! It's something you notice in the background when you're not looking at something else. It's not the focus of attention.
Anyway, then I remembered Propaganda, a collection of abstract images designed for use as desktop wallpaper. I used them as backgrounds on my Linux laptops back when I was at the University of Oregon, almost ten years ago. I was worried about the resolution - we didn't exactly have 30" LCD monitors back then - but since all the images are 512x512 seamless tiles, they work equally well tiled across a 2560x1600 display as across a 1024x768 13" laptop screen or 1280x1024 desktop CRT.
I don't really understand the titles. I'm currently using a mottled dark green pattern which for some reason has the title "Mahogany Handjob 3". But, y'know, it's not like the titles matter. Joe-Bob sez check it out.
You know, wallpaper. There are reasons why real-life wallpaper doesn't consist of, say, full-wall photographs of a pretty sunset! It's something you notice in the background when you're not looking at something else. It's not the focus of attention.
Anyway, then I remembered Propaganda, a collection of abstract images designed for use as desktop wallpaper. I used them as backgrounds on my Linux laptops back when I was at the University of Oregon, almost ten years ago. I was worried about the resolution - we didn't exactly have 30" LCD monitors back then - but since all the images are 512x512 seamless tiles, they work equally well tiled across a 2560x1600 display as across a 1024x768 13" laptop screen or 1280x1024 desktop CRT.
I don't really understand the titles. I'm currently using a mottled dark green pattern which for some reason has the title "Mahogany Handjob 3". But, y'know, it's not like the titles matter. Joe-Bob sez check it out.
