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Thursday November 16, 2006

Cool Desktop Backgrounds

Jim wrote me to tell me that this photo of my laptop:

Cool Desktop Background

is the most popular in his flickr photos from Korea Tech Days, and that he was getting requests for copies of the desktop backgrounds. Good News! You too can have them-- they appear in the Solaris Express Community Release starting with (I think) Build 51. You'll find them in the "Desktop Background" preferences along with about two dozen other cool backgrounds. Enjoy!

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Comments:

Any chance to make them easily available for those of us who just upgraded to 50 and don't want to do another upgrade right now?

Posted by Stephen P Potter on November 17, 2006 at 10:14 AM PST #

I see a problem, though. The "Computer" icon does not follow the Solaris Icon Theme like the rest of the icons, but uses the old Industrial "computer" icon instead. This should be fixed.

Posted by Munchkinguy on November 17, 2006 at 07:09 PM PST #

The icon is my personal choice-- I happened to pick it as a customer launcher for a terminal. You can pick any icon you want-- as best I know, the default set of icons are all in the "Sun" icon set. The point here was the background.

Posted by Dan Price on November 19, 2006 at 11:54 PM PST #

They are available in build 49 (at least) since I used it (on my other notebook, which is 6000 miles from me now...). It's not the default, but can easily be chosen from the GNOME GUI.

Posted by Iwan rahabok on November 20, 2006 at 12:47 AM PST #