ScreensaverDefaultImage

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Summary

Various screensaver hacks use bitmap images as input. We should provide Ubuntu branded images, community artwork and other interesting images as default content for these modes.

Rationale

The current screensaver image provided as a default is an unattractive TV-test-screen type image. This should be changed into a more attractive Ubuntu branded image, this will not only look better than the current image , but also serve to further reinforce the Ubuntu brand.

Additionally we should provide community contributed artwork, to be displayed in the screensaver, within the directory that the screensaver accesses for images. A policy for handling user contributed artwork is required for this.

Use cases

Mark took a trip to into space and would like to contribute photos taken on this trip for use as screensaver images.

Canonical Ltd. has some nice human-circle and logo images, which would make a good ubuntu-branded screensaver collection for display on public workstations such as those installed in local community centres, libraries, on show at conferences etc.

Joe took a trip to Kenya and returns with photos of African vistas and wildlife. He thinks they ROCK and he would like to share these with the Ubuntu community.

Question: Will this be restricted to photos? or will any kind of image be accepted? To be decided.

Scope

Policy - A governing policy is required to provide guidelines for managing the submission and use of images within the screensaver. The policy will need to consider the following:

  • how to gather images (web site submissions as per art.ubuntu.com?)
  • what constitutes a good/bad image
    • image size
    • image resolution
    • content/subject restrictions [e.g. nudity, violence, political, religious etc]
    • file format
    • other?
  • how to decide which images to include
    • moderation
    • community voting
  • categorisation of images
    • It is likely that the gallery will grow rapidly. Also users may prefer images of a certain theme (e.g. Space Travel, Solar Systems, Puppies etc) Images will need to be categorised for easy themed sorting and selection.
  • licensing of images - all images would need to declared as CC-attribution by the submitter
  • other

Question: Is another BOF required to spec the policy?

Gallery - A gallery facility will be required for the collection, display and possibly voting on images.

Moderation Team - a team of moderators will be required to moderate the gallery submissions.

Default Images - A selection of default images to be displayed in the screensaver on installation in screensaver package, as well as gallery of images in screensaver-gallery package.

Design

Gallery - suggestion that a section is created on art.ubuntu.com to collect, moderate and poll on images.

Have a look at gnome-art style - http://www.miketech.net/gnome-art/

Another example:

Implementation

Gallery - create a new section for screensaver images in art.ubuntu.com. This must have:

  • The capability to moderate images (policy rules to be applied here)
  • A way to categorise images in the gallery (as per policy).
  • Community Voting Poll capability (to allow images to be voted on for popularity)

Moderation Team - form a team of moderators to moderate the gallery submissions, as per the policy.

Default Images - select the default images to be displayed in the screensaver on installation in screensaver package.

Packaging - packaging of the chosen default images into screensaver package, and creating screensaver-gallery package for the user contributed artwork.

Code

No code changes required, only packaging of images in screensaver packages as mentioned above.

Proposal: Switch webwhacker gallery to use the screensaver section of art.ubuntu.com, in a similar way to gnome-art wallpaper handling. See: www.miketech.net/gnome-art/

Data preservation and migration

Not applicable.

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion