Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 21 June 2014 00:25:35 Andrew Lake wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> With the sharpness of the default background image in the login, splash and
> lockscreen, both the foreground and background appear to be in focus -
> causing a slightly uncomfortable lack of depth. Things seem to look better
> with a defocused and slightly dimmed background - the foreground appears
> sharp and in-focus relative to the background and the fade-to-desktop
> effect with the default wallpaper has the pleasant visual side effect of
> appearing to bring the desktop into focus.
> 
> Before I could get a screenshot my local neon install kinda flaked out. So
> I've provided a link to the defocused and dimmed background image. I'm
> hoping someone can try it out locally before I commit. It replaces the
> background.png file in lookandfeel/contents/components/artwork and
> lookandfeel/contents/splash/images.
> 
> (Also I'd be fine if the same thing were accomplished programmatically
> instead.)
> 
> New background file:
> http://wstaw.org/m/2014/06/21/background.png
> 
> Could someone try this out when you get a chance? I'll commit if there are
> no objections.

ok, so this goes on login, splash and lockscreen, while the normal background 
is still in focus?

sounds good to me

btw just to be sure, this is going to be the final default background?
(at some point i understood it could have been this one 
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pt8ssY4qgCQ/U3oNfW1csmI/AAAAAAAAMsA/LQvL-FvMiVQ/s1600/loving+it.png= since the "desktop" default icon seems to have a 
variant of it

-- 
Marco Martin