Background for login, splash, and lockscreen

[Jens]

I am +1 about blurring the login AND as for the wallpaper:
I've talked to Nuno about it and there is some "Mggrmmrl" going on there since 
he has fallen out of love with it and we still need him to send us the proper 
SVG's off it so we can do several different resolutions of it.

If Andrews wallpaper is the new default (assuming its "homemade"... Andrew?) 
or whatever it is we should get it sorted asap since we need to use it as the 
background for the login and it would be nice to put this issue to rest.

If Andrews image isn't homebrewed I will hound Nuno some more to get it sent 
to me so we can just get that bit off our collective chests

/Jens (post-midsummer, insanely tired)

On Saturday 21 June 2014 12.45.59 Marco Martin wrote:
> 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/s1
> 600/loving+it.png= since the "desktop" default icon seems to have a variant
> of it