How to recreate the Ubuntu 10.04 wallpaper in Inkscape (Step-by-step)

By , Published March 22, 2010

With a few weeks to kill until the next Beta of Ubuntu 10.04 why not stoke your creatively-sapped juices by re-creating the new Ubuntu 10.04 default wallpaper in Inkscape?

Popular Spanish design site cursorlibre.com have offered up a step-by-step tutorial on recreating the aubergine-inspired wallpaper from scratch.

If you don’t speak Spanish you can view a (in places bizarrely) translated version via Google @ this link.

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Worth a few minutes of anyone’s day €“ and be sure to share your attempts in the comments!

Cursorlibre tutorial Via | rm -rf /

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • BigDave

    I’m sorry, but that’s one of the ugliest wallpapers I’ve ever seen

    • http://twitter.com/kinesthesia kinesthesia

      It’s definitely not as nice as their previous ones. :(

    • http://marco.boneff.ch Neff

      I strongly disagree… I’m using this wallpaper on my mac and my windows installation, and it’s wonderful.

  • http://ofcproject.blogspot.com/ Sergio Andrés

    Great! Espectacular, gracias ;)

  • Anonymous

    i can spend 15mins making this or spend 30 secs right clicking “save as” on the official wallpaper and setting it as my wallpaper mmmmmmm decisions decisions so hard to choose.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      This tutorial isn’t for people who only want the wallpaper but who want to learn how to make something like it; they can learn what went into creating it in the first place.

  • Hubbabub

    Similar to HeathenX’s video tutorial 104
    http://screencasters.heathenx.org/episode-104/

  • Anonymous

    Great tutorial.

    In response to comments above, this is a way of understanding the wallpaper that you don’t like, and perhaps customising it for yourselves…

    It is amazing to see the response of the community to the rebranding of Ubuntu. They have clamoured for change for years, and now it is here, it is gnashing of teeth and wailings! I personnaly wanted Ubuntu to go black (like Crunchbang), in honour of the fact that black is all colours and because of South Africa’s heritage, but am not lamenting because they did not do so.
    Honestly, what colour did you want them to go for? Green = Opensuse, Blue = Windows, Purple / Blue = Mac, Fedora = Blue, Green = Mint, Red = Murder, Brown = old Ubuntu, Black = Crunchbang etc..
    I believe Yellow is still not taken, nor is red (for obvious reasons). There you go!

    • http://0rax0.deviantart.com/ rAX

      Yellow = Puppy Linux?

      • Anonymous

        Yes, and red is for Sabayon Linux I suppose. Puupy is still quite Blue in its look.
        Forgot that KDE is often Blue or Green

  • http://0rax0.deviantart.com/ rAX

    Nice tut. thank you for posting!
    He used a lot of blur, in my experience with Inkscape, that will make the program so slow! So for people trying to follow the tut., try to use gradients instead if you ran into my problem, it is not as good as the blur effect but acceptable.
    I prefer Photoshop for this type of wallpapers, or in our case, GIMP! :P