Ladies and Gentlemans, we have a default wallpaper!
After a week of pondering and discussing we’ve finally chosen which will be the default wallpaper!
And the winner is…
EOS by Vlad Gerasimov! =)
Lots of congrats to Vlad! =)
If you want to see or you missed the other wallpapers, please see the corresponding page for all the *awesome* 15 entries which made it to be the final set for KDE 4.
Next post: the new cursor set!
Comment by fish — November 19, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
Didn’t you want something fresh and new?
Can’t believe you guys have chosen a blue one for default.
I had hoped for a little bit more courage there…sigh.
Comment by Joe — November 19, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Good choice I think. Definately the safest choice that I think everyone can enjoy.
Comment by Polmac — November 19, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
I don’t like it very much… it’s quite typical. I rather any of the other ones (preferably a photograph). There are some beautiful ones.
Comment by Daniel — November 19, 2007 @ 10:35 pm
I can’t say I like it very much… Also it appears to make heavy use of gradients, I hope you guys too into account how it will look on 8bit monitors.
Comment by Draygon — November 19, 2007 @ 10:38 pm
Fuck 8 bit monitors.
Comment by sim0n — November 19, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
The wallpaper is ok, nothin too special IMO.
@Daniel 8bit monitors ??!?!
why should they take that into account ?
On an 8bit monitor it’s probably best to just use a solid color as background.
just my 2€c
Comment by Daniel — November 19, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
Any LCD that has a low color depth (i.e. most of the cheap ones) resorts to dithering, which in turn makes gradients look awful.
The point of a good default is to work well against a wide range of use cases, and since quite a few people use crappy LCDs they will get a crappy default wallpaper, which in turn translates into a crappy KDE4 out of the box experience.
Anyhow, this is all speculation since all I can see right now is a tiny thumbnail, maybe the gradients on the wallpaper don’t suffer on a lower LCD color depth.
Comment by nilux — November 19, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
Yesss! I fell in love with this one the first time I saw it; it looks damn great, especially combined with the black/transparent look of the plasmoids and the new panel!
You’ve made the rrrright choice!
Comment by Skeith — November 19, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
Why did this post flood the planet feed on the dot with all your other posts?
I figured this one would become the default wallpaper since its rather plain. Why couldn’t you go with something flashy like that red leaf or the golden pond wallpapers?
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Comment by Tyler — November 19, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
Nice choice for the default wallpaper, Vlad creations are always great
Who doesn’t like it can simply choose another one
Comment by Jakob Petsovits — November 19, 2007 @ 11:22 pm
I understand the more negative commenters, as the scaled down version on this page can never get close to the full size versions that could be seen on Nuno’s blog for example.
It’s awesome, it’s blue and and it makes not only for great visual joy but also for a highly functional wallpaper that gets out of the way when you actually want to work instead of looking at nice pictures.
Great choice, I fully support it.
Comment by bleh2 — November 19, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
meh, like most comments here I’d have preferred one of the others, *any* of the others.
Comment by Stefan — November 19, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
8 bit graphics, wtf? A computer that is capable of running KDE4 will have more than enough VRAM for 24 bit (1920×1200 needs only 6,5MB…).
the last time I used an 8 bit setting was in 1996.
Comment by feng shaun — November 19, 2007 @ 11:53 pm
I love EOS…if there was any voting involved, I’d vote for that one. YAAAAAYYYYYYY CONGRATULATIONS VLAD…I LOVE YOUR WORKS!!! =)
Comment by feng shaun — November 19, 2007 @ 11:55 pm
it’s really functional and makes you concentrate on what you’re doing. Great choice. Thank you all judges!
Comment by feng shaun — November 19, 2007 @ 11:56 pm
the only thing is now Raptor
If I only had that too…that would have been awesome. NUNO PLEAAAASE FOR GOD’S SAKE…DO IT!!! 
Comment by Tim — November 20, 2007 @ 12:01 am
Hmm it seems like every default wallpaper is blue and wavy. This is doubtless the best I’ve seen, but I agree with the previous comments - you could have been *slightly* more adventurous.
@Daniel: Newsflash: It’s 2007! Everyone has at least 16 bit displays.
Comment by Vime — November 20, 2007 @ 12:18 am
Riccardo we are waiting the top 100 wallpaper list
Comment by Mark — November 20, 2007 @ 12:54 am
Why not shot the full size wallpaper? Afraid to show off like the Oxygen project? Not very open sourcy…
Comment by Pedro — November 20, 2007 @ 1:16 am
I am really happy for this choice. I think this wall paper is best than a photo to find icons putted on it… and I also like it very much until I saw it on nuno blog’s images.
@Mark
Again with this issues? I respect your opinion but I am a little bit annoyed by those remarks. When Kde4 will be out all the graphic works will be accessible from every one.
Give the staff guys the possibility to give us some surprises. I am sure it’s sad for the kde’s guys to read every time this things.
We can be patient IMHO
Comment by m.dev — November 20, 2007 @ 1:42 am
I love it! I really like blue wallpapers with gradients, this is simply _beautiful_! Blue forever!
Comment by twilight — November 20, 2007 @ 2:07 am
Its ugly. I dont like it.
Comment by Henry S. — November 20, 2007 @ 2:18 am
Well there are already a lot of opinions here, so I will state an unfortunate (fortunate for some) fact instead:
It doesn’t really matter what KDE wranglers choose…most distros will replace it anyways!
Comment by Robert — November 20, 2007 @ 2:26 am
I personally like it, however this is highly subjective and I can understand why others may not be so keen.
Fortunately it is something that is easily changed (I change mine frequently) and as previously mentioned, most distributions will ship with their own custom wallpaper.
Ultimately (first impressions aside), it’s a fairly minor part of KDE 4. Not something that’s worth getting overly hung up over.
Comment by tumb — November 20, 2007 @ 2:35 am
*Looks at it for 2 minutes*
I don’t get it. Why blue?
Comment by Baumranger — November 20, 2007 @ 2:54 am
Pleas, I was hoping that it wouldn’t be blue. It was good to have some blue backgrounds within the 15 winners but pleas not as a standard background.
I didn’t agree with the blue pictures anyway so much but that you have chosen this one I’m honestly a little disappointed (even though they were all top quality but the blue ones weren’t my styl).
Well, many distributions will change it anyway but I think that with KDE4 you should have taken something new and fresh.
Comment by Jesús Guerrero — November 20, 2007 @ 3:02 am
It is not the one I would have chosen. I though that it was time to change the color a bit, but well… I can understand why some people like it. At least, it is easy on the eye, is not disturbing, is not a pain in the eyes, it is darker (which is good if you actually work with the computer and don’t use it to kill aliens) and don’t has a big K on the middle (sorry, I dislike branding of any kind, just like I don’t like trends).
So, I suppose it is a good choice, even if it is not the one I’d choose.
Comment by Treviño — November 20, 2007 @ 3:17 am
IMHO it’s not the best between all the finalists…
I do really loved more the other photo-based wallpapers…
I understand that a SVG wallpaper is better for making it fit with all the resolutions, but the look isn’t exactly the best in this case…
Maybe it has already asked, but why this hasn’t been decided with open doors (I mean with a public poll) ?
Comment by David Johnson — November 20, 2007 @ 3:46 am
If it were grayscale with alpha channel, then you can set the color to anything, not just blue.
Comment by chep — November 20, 2007 @ 4:01 am
Looks great!
Just a nitpicking…
Please correct in title
word: “gentlemans”
Should read: “gentlemen”
plural(”man”) == “men”
Thank you!
Comment by Andreas Karl — November 20, 2007 @ 4:33 am
Sorry, I cann’t understand this vote.
KDE is developing the WM for the next generation
But the default wallpaper - it’s anumusing black and blue
Comment by drizek — November 20, 2007 @ 8:02 am
“Maybe it has already asked, but why this hasn’t been decided with open doors (I mean with a public poll) ?”
Because if each individual part of KDE was done by a public poll, it would be a huge mess. The people that are designing the style, icons, color scheme, fonts, etc. are the people that can pick the wallpaper that best matches the overall design of the desktop.
If we just pick the best of each, then we might end up with red icons, a green wallpaper and purple window decorations. The whole point of Oxygen was to get a unified theme for KDE that actually fits together nicely.
Comment by Javier — November 20, 2007 @ 8:03 am
I guessed this’d be the one. Nuno’s mockups are becoming the actual kde 4 desktop!
Comment by mamato — November 20, 2007 @ 8:37 am
I don’t understand why this wallpaper will be a problem for KDE 4. I always think that KDE 4 is a bigger project than wallpapers and icons. There are plenty another icons and wallpapers out there, if you don’t like the blue one, just use your own!
~Just my 2 cents
Comment by yoshi314 — November 20, 2007 @ 9:41 am
good choice. it will work nicely on older systems, without too much of a burden.
and it has safe colours. usually blue colours are safe choice for default color theme.
Comment by halish — November 20, 2007 @ 9:59 am
perfect for a default wallpaper. i’ll change it asap though:)
Comment by V++ — November 20, 2007 @ 1:22 pm
I would like the wallpaper if it isn’t painted in that boring Standard-KDE-Blue.
I had the hope, that with KDE4 this will change….
Think this wallpaper looks great if you change the color blue with maybe white!?
Nevertheless, good job!
Greetings
V++
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Comment by David — November 20, 2007 @ 4:23 pm
Hi Riccardo.
I just saw, that Vlad also provivides Dual Sreen versions of his Wallpapers on his site. It would be very cool to supply at least the default wallpaper as a dual screen version, too.
Cheers,
David
Comment by Flavio — November 20, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Good choice. At least among the selected contest wallpapers, this is the best. IMHO A default wallpaper must be abstract art. Can’t be a flower and definitely not a green hill with sky and clouds
Comment by litb — November 20, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
why can’t you make the wallpaper colorizable? so that if the user chooses to tink it with green, the wallpaper will change form blue to green, but with all the structures the same as it was in blue, just another color. wouldn’t that be nice and doable?
Comment by paulu — November 20, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
Comment by disappointed — November 20, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
I can’t imagine anything more bland and generic.
Comment by Not disappointed — November 20, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Looks good!
Comment by jeff — November 20, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
@ disappointed
that’s what default wallpapers are meant to be
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Comment by Valerio — November 20, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
Good choice. It doesn’t gather too much the users’ attention, but it still is classy and smooth.
My personally personal idea:
http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?524
it’s totally unfitting to Oxy’s style, but I would have loved to see it on my first kde-4-final login
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Comment by Lutze — November 21, 2007 @ 12:44 am
I did not like this either initially but then I found a bigger version of EOS on Vlad’s website. This is with a different color scheme. But I really like the textures if this executed the same way.
http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?524
Comment by mlg — November 21, 2007 @ 2:39 am
you had it, you shared it… and you let it go away….
i dont like it
Comment by Level 1 — November 21, 2007 @ 3:01 am
the last 10 or so blogs from your site keep reappearing in my blog list (akgregator)… is there something wrong with your blog software?
Comment by she — November 21, 2007 @ 4:47 am
dont want to sound evil
but this is a boring theme
i think only light-blue full colour would be more boring
i think a kde4 wallpaper that was more specific to kde4 would have been better
maybe “new engines look”
Comment by klaus trofobi — November 21, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
I dislike it, too.
Comment by Anonymous — November 21, 2007 @ 3:09 pm
Personally, I do not like it. It is too boring and lacks originality, imho. Besides, to me it looks somewhat out-of-the-oxygen style. However, I see that many people adore Vlad Gerasimov’s work. OK, I agree that we disagree here. After all, anyone can easily change this wallpaper to the one he/she prefers, so it’s not a big deal for a particular user. But as for the image of the whole new KDE’s look, as for the vision of the new style.. I don’t know. But let’s leave the decision to the Oxygen’s team, together with the responsibility.
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Comment by Nekto — November 22, 2007 @ 8:37 am
Молодец,неплохая обоина!
Comment by Он самый. — November 22, 2007 @ 9:11 am
Поздравляю! Хуле.
Comment by me — November 23, 2007 @ 1:27 am
What people forget is that it was not to decide which picture looks best, but which ones fits best the requirements of a wallpaper. A wallpaper must not draw attention to itself, hence most photographs are not suited, even though they look better than the EOS.
You wouldn’t put photographs on all walls of your house either, because that’s not what they are meant to be used for. Take the other pictures and put them into the photo-plasmoid, that’s the way to use them.
Comment by kwilliam — December 23, 2007 @ 11:59 am
I think it’s a wonderful choice. I don’t like macro closeup photographs as wallpapers generally. For a default wallpaper, this is perfect!