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They're beautiful, but a small tangent... the latest macOS has a bug that repeatedly reverts the wallpaper to the default whenever I unplug/plug my external monitor and it's driving me crazy.
(admirable) these images did incredible psychic damage to kde designers i used the catalina bg until late last year, when they started shipping the former appletv video backgrounds as the default, because it was just so good. seriously, after that on a 5k display, i thought i would never enjoy another desktop background
> (admirable) these images did incredible psychic damage to kde designers made me chuckle :-) But for real, there is something about a good wallpaper, at least for me, the wallpaper being the first thing I set on a new linux install. I fully believe that a solid default wallpaper can help with desktop manager adoption (i.e. kde, gnome, xfce4), at least for the bohemians types like me!
With the photography it’s one of the things Apple get so right about UX.
The one that mystifies me, is why Apple pulled their original Dubai At Night screensaver[0]. [0] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=766810966790684 (This seems to be the only place to find it online).
I was in a room of Apple TV engineers when the screensaver of I-110 in LA came on. Everyone agreed that it caused mild anxiety. I'm glad I don't see it in the rotation anymore. https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-scre...
https://512pixels.net/downloads/macos-wallpapers-thumbs/10-2...
Takes me back to my dorm room on my 13-inch iBook.
I made this thing that breaks down each image by fraction of each color used
https://www.julyp.com/shared/018dae67-9ec0-7191-bd9f-7fe9c85...
Looking at it like a source of color palettes, I really like Venture more...
This and bliss put me in a wicked nostalgic mood.
I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…
Try searching at somewhere like wallhaven.cc[1], which aggregates wallpapers with good tagging, colour, size and ratio-based searches. A lot of the wallpapers there come from other sources like Flickr, interfacelift, Reddit, 4chan (for better or for worse, /wg/ isn't too bad ), or just direct uploads. I wouldn't say credit is preserved particularly well at all times, which is a shame, but it is just a reverse image s…
Tangentially, I find wallpaper to be fascinating as it's one of the few aspects of desktop UX that is basically still 100% open to self-expression. For functional reasons, every other desktop UI surface has converged with only a few minor variations. But the static desktop OS background - perhaps because it has no inherent functional purpose and remains covered most of the time - remains as a canvas.
> the static desktop OS background Eons ago, there was a (paid) 3rd-party program for MacOS Classic that would give you a slideshow desktop background. The images were of the Golden Gate bridge, and were a timelapse over the course of a day. The changes were (afair) synced to your local solar time, so 'sunset' in the desktop background would line up with your local sunset. I'd have to search to find the name of the p…
I’ve searched for it several times, but as far as the web is concerned it never existed. Would really like to find it because its default desktop picture was pleasant (during the day, a blue sky over a field of flowers if I recall correctly) and it would be nice to see it again.
Sadly a lot of early-mid-00s Mac shareware like that has seemingly vanished.
These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
The second one. Yes!
I remember seeing it on the Leopard keynote. It was glorious with the translucent menubar that ditched the rounded corners.
