Hi

Today I want to talk about wallpapers and the great community.

Nuno (not Hugo) made the plasma 5.1 wallpaper and kver the wallpaper for plasma 5.2. The wallpapers are great and a good standard setting but in the past there are more than one wallpaper available in plasma. In the kde-wallpapers-4.8.x package there are Air, Ariya, Autumn, Azul, Blue Wood, Castilla Sky, Finally Summer in Germany, Flying Field, Fog on the West Lake, Fresh Moring, Grass, Hanami, Horos and Media Life.

The plasma team and the Visual Design Group want to bring a large selection of wallpapers to plasma 5.3 and therefore We need YOU. Why because you are part of the community and my idea was to show the community, for example:

Beach from Huawei

City of Bangkok

Animals from Peru

Krita artist wallpaper

Konqui in Silicon Valley

Children wallpaper for KDE education

plasma (physic) animated wallpaper

day and night time wallpaper for hackers

mountains from austria

…

I also want to have wallpapers for the weather app but therefore wallpapers for the following weather conditions are necessary:

clear

partly cloudy

cloudy

very cloudy

showering

scattered showers

rainy

misty

storming

hailing

snowing

scattered snow

partly cloudy night

cloudy night

clear night

mixed precipition

Basic guidelines:

Keep it simple: don’t use too many colours, shapes, etc.

Use a single point of focus to draw the eye in

Design at a minimum resolution of 2560 x 1600

use png for bitmap files (less colours), jpg for photos and svg for vector artist (result in png)

Licence: LGPLv3

No branding

Test the wallpaper with different resolutions and form factors

Break all the rules except the resolution and licence one!

Finished wallpapers:

If possible upload your finished wallpaper to opendesktop.org

post the link to the wallpaper in the blog post comments

Time schedule:

1st April 2015

The winning wallpapers will be revealed on 9th April 2015

Thanks for contributing to Plasma.