<div>Replies to different questions and proposals:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> From the wiki page, I can't distinguish the good background examples</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">from the bad ones....</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I was using the backgrounds provided by fedora 18, as examples.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">They are no so good for us as you said. I see two ways to have good backgrounds:</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">preserve the circle in the middle, like the hand drawn kid, or use alpha as in the last one,</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(already proposed in the thread). But I am sure we will see other possibilities</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">when the kids use it, like use the random layout and put the icons on strategic places,</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">usually kids are smarter than we expect. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></div>
+1 to slider to play with alpha<div><br></div><div>+1 to not need restart to apply the changes.</div><div><br></div><div>About applying the image on all the views, probably is better. </div><div>I understand the zoom metaphor is not so clear if the background image does not change,</div>
<div>but I don't know how to improve that. In fact, the only element changing is the central kid icon.</div><div><br></div><div>About the tiled backgrounds, I like it very much, but only if there are code & art available.</div>
<div>If not, apply the rule "perfect is the enemy of good" [1]</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good</a></div>