[Bug 43350] Re: Too Low Resolution Backgrounds

[Karoliina Salminen]

Cool. Yes, it is downside of most distributions and also other operating systems that the background images
are usually supplied with a crappy resolution.

I am using 23 inch Apple Cinema HD Display at work and will soon be using 30 inch Dell 3007WFP at home (as soon as it arrives from Dell, placed the order few days ago). Therefore for the resolutions I use, the default 1600x1200 is low. The resolutions are 1920x1200 for the Apple and 2560x1600 for the Dell respectively. My usual fix for the issue has been to use my own background image with some photograph from my collection, but it would be cool if the distro could also take bigger displays (23, 24, 30 inch LCD) in account since some 
people (despite not being the majority just yet) are using these high resolution displays these days, at least in Finland. At work, most are using either the lower mentioned resolution; 1680x1050 or the 1920x1200 resolution on Ubuntu - the widescreen 1680x1050 looks like being some standard type LCD monitor.

Greg, your images look very nice and artistic, a lot better than what I
have accomplished. My photographs are available as source images if
needed from my gallery too, http://www.katix.org/gallery2 . However,
while being high resolution, they aren't really deliberately artistic
photographs but rather documentation pictures I am taking of flight
trips, places, things etc. and due to the huge amount of them (I have
tens of thousands of pictures on my harddrive and still quite many
hundreds in the web gallery), I have had no time to perfect them, they
are basically direct jpg output from the camera. I provided the link
basically if someone wants to work on them and do artwork derived from
them, you are free to do so, I have licensed them as Creative Commons
license which allows non-commercial derivative works. By digging through
my galleries, it is possible to find some nature landscapes from
Lappland of Finland and there are couple of shots I consider being
okayish.

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Too Low Resolution Backgrounds
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43350