Joy Theme

Author : Adrien Aubourg <adrien.aubourg AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>

Idea :

Many Linux distributions provide fancy and good-looking themes, trying to impress at first sight their users. Beside, the Debian distribution has always tried to be aesthetically simple and sober. In one word, being attractive by being efficient. The Wheezy artwork call for proposals is a good opportunity to enhance this efficiency through a full svg, light and simple theme.

Approach :

Most of Linux distributions have their own colors as a recognisable sign. Ubuntu uses Dark/Brown, Fedora uses Dark/Dark Blue, ?OpenSuse uses plain green, Mint uses Grey/Light Green... Debian is Light Blue. So, even if some proposals suggests other unused set of colors (Dark/Dark Purple or Dark Brown), the main goal is to use blue. As plain wallpapers are a bit agressive whatever the used color, I used a well-known central gradient, but with a carefully choosen blue.

The Debian Logo has to be shown without any fancy and useless effect. The logo is great, no need to do anything on it.

Proposals :

Here are 10 proposals (ie. 10 FullHD (1920x1080) wallpapers). Of course, they are basically ideas of what I've done so far with the above idea and approach. Only the proposal 1 have been turned into other resolutions to match the requirements, but this can be done for the other proposals.

Proposals 5-9 change the Debian color identity, which is a serious decision to take. So for those you want to stick with the blue color, have a look on proposals 1-4 and 10.

Proposal 1 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_1_1920x1080.png

The base wallpaper. No effect, only a nice blue gradient. Less than 10 ko in svg. The logo is not totally white. If you want it white, go to proposal 10.

Proposal 2 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_2_1920x1080.png

The base wallpaper with an outlined logo.

Proposal 3 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_3_1920x1080.png

Inspired from Eshat Cakar's Roj Theme, but without all the blurry effect. The logo has a projected shadow, which can be time consuming to render.

Proposal 4 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_4_1920x1080.png

The usual ink-projected wallpaper.

Proposal 5 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_5_1920x1080.png

Same as 4 but in purple.

Proposal 6 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_6_1920x1080.png

Same as 3 but in purple

Proposal 7 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_7_1920x1080.png

Same as 1 but in light brown.

Proposal 8 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_8_1920x1080.png

Same as 7 but with blue ink from 4. One of my favorite.

Proposal 9 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_9_1920x1080.png

Same as 4 but in light brown

Proposal 10 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_10_1920x1080.png

Same as 1 but with a full white logo

Other proposals :

Following the wishes and the advices from Debian-Desktop mailing list, here are 5 more proposals :

Proposal 11 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_11.png

Same as 10 but with the shadow

Proposal 12 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_12.png

Same as 1 but with the shadow

Proposal 13 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_13.png

Same as 2 but with the shadow

Proposal 14 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_14.png

Same as 7 but with the shadow

Proposal 15 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_15.png

Same as 1 but with a different shadow (darker logo in background)

Proposal 16 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_joy_16.png

Dark/Red colors

Proposal 17 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_joy_17.png

Dark/Red colors with whiter logo with shadow

Proposal 18 :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_joy_18.png

Same as 17 but without shadow

Proposal 1 with required resolutions :

GDM :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_joy_gdm.png

Grub :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_Grub.png

Installer :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_joy_installer.png

Syslinux/Isolinux :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_isosyslinux.png

Plymouth :

http://www.debianart.org/cchost/people/Adau/Adau_-_Joy_plymouth.png

Source files :

These are svg files, but still formatted to be read by Inkscape ("saved as svg Inkscape")

Proposal 1

Proposal 7

Materials (Some browser save the file as get.php, if so rename the file to get.tar.gz)