Is abstract a must? You may cut down submissions if that is the only option. Just a thought. Maybe accept more options and potentially let the community vote?
If it is that it must be abstract, would you like the same colors, new colors, a color scheme maybe? Any kind of direction in the color depqrtment will help a lot.
KDE Plasma is a great example of the branding. Their wallpapers for each major version clearly evolve and have different design, but with enough callbacks to prior versions and themes so that itās instantly recognizable as KDE.
If I may add. The new wallpaper might want to reflect what Budgie is and how it distances itself from the Gnome desktop. Compile a bunch of descriptors, like; intuitive, minimal, beautiful, airy.
Think of concepts that illustrate this, examples; busy road leading to a clear path. A more abstract example; cloudy to clear, misty to illuminous, heavy to light.
Anyway, maybe that thought process might help someone.
Wow, really nice! While I too like 1 and 3 most, 2 is nice and different enough that all 3 could be included. Perhaps all 3 could benefit from a touch more bluish-blue.
Still love the current original.
I was skulking around Google images, and this image/lockscreen change vitux.com made is actually quite nice and the colors work. Is this official or something the site found on its own?:
Hi. Iām Chamos. Iām new to UB so I hope my opinion doesnāt step on anyoneās toes.
Sparkly wallpaper is not my cup of tea. I much prefer the type of wallpaper with an embedded logo. This is probably not the correct terminology so here is an example.
I can download pretty wallpapers anywhere but, IMHO, unique distro specific wallpapers project a greater professional image.
Remember - that goes against the ethos of Ubuntu and its flavours. Generally we all work as one team - and one part of the team (budgie wallpapers) should work nicely on another part of the team (e.g. xubuntu). So we discourage logos.
There is no harm though on having a āfaceā where the colours and style represent a distro - and thatās what we are interested here in finding - a revised face to give a refreshed image.
face is the bit that is most recognisable about a distro. So our current wallpaper is something we use to promote ourselves. Magazines/blogs pick up on this and our image spreads.
So here we are looking for basically a continuation - something that just feels that it represents ourselves - colours, styling etc.
Very nice wallpaper! The Ubuntu Budgie default wallpaper is very nice, also. Itās a perfect fit and itās hard to beat perfection. In fact, Ubuntu Budgie is the only distribution I currently use that Iāve left the default wallpaper in place. I use a few other distributions regularly and have changed the wallpapers on all but Budgie. The galaxy wallpaper fits nicely and keeps the feel of the original intact. It would be a welcome alternative to choose from.