It is nice that when you have something large to recompile, you can spend the time doing small things like breaking apart the Arch Linux logo and creating a new branded version of Stripes.

Just as before, you’re getting one version with original colour of the wallpaper, and one that uses distro’s colour. I’ve used the colour from the logo - a stronger shade of blue :)

I’ve spent some time with both of them on my desktop, and although the “strong” version doesn’t look anything special in a thumbnail, it is rather pleasant to use.

Packages

Previous wallpapers were just posted as previews here on the blog, but since this was not requested by the distro-art-managers of Arch, but only users, it will probably not end up as a part of the distro.

Edit Thanks to Pier for the hint, you can download the wallpapers from dropbox or sendspace. And I’ve added them to kde-look, so you can install them via GHNS.

Kde-look:

• Stripes: Arch
• Stripes: Arch (Strong)

Dropbox: * Stripes: Arch - 2MB * Stripes: Arch (strong) - 2.2MB

Sendspace: * Stripes: Arch - 2MB * Stripes: Arch (strong) - 2.2MB

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I bet nobody expected this (I didn’t) - the next distro-branded version of stripes is for freeBSD. The freeBSD logo is quite pretty, but distorting it ruins it beyound recognition. For this reason, the wallpaper has much less depth than the previous ones.

One is the obligatory blue (not to say vanilla version) and the other one is redish)

KDE be free…

And here’s the first attempt of making a KDE-branded one… I’m not yet satisfied with it, this is only a preview.

So, one of the first distros that contacted me related to branded Stripes was openSuse. So, this is one of the versions.

(there are ~7 in total, including the plain blue like the Debian one was)

Working on modified Stripes turned out to be rather gratifying. I didn’t expect the wallpaper to /work/ with different colours.

It even looks cool when two different colours are used for the background. (maybe I’ll do that for some other distro)

Some time ago, Nuno was talking about us (KDE) modifying/adapting artwork we have to suit distributions so that both KDE and distribution brand can be retained. (if someone has the link to the blog posts in question, I’d be much obliged)

So, without a further ado, the preview version of a Debian-specific version of the Stripes wallpaper:

edit: Multiresolution archive now available on kde-look and via GHNS.

So, if you maintain (or whatever you call it) artwork for your distro, and would like to have a distro-branded version, just send me an e-mail or find me on IRC.

p.s. Why Debian? I’m using it and the swirl looks awesome in Stripes :)

p.p.s. I know marketing people will not like the idea of distorting their logos, but… it looks rather cool! :D