[cleary_jp]

Does anyone know if the grass wallpaper that is used in the preview of leopard is the official wallpaper? Surely that can't be it!!!!! It looks so vista... and vista = ugly!!!!!

[TETENAL]

Steve Jobs said that everybody is using his own pictures as desktop background these days. To enforce this a little bit the default Leopard background picture is intentionally ugly.

[ooninay]

On the latest build (well, 9a559 anyway), the default wallpaper is a cosmos scene. I find it more appealing than the (busy) grass, but not the best space image I've seen by a longshot.

[Art Vandelay]

It's the aurora borealis, not some space scene as many think it is.

[ooninay]

wow... that's the most intense aurora borealis I've ever seen.

[osxpinot]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

Steve Jobs said that everybody is using his own pictures as desktop background these days. To enforce this a little bit the default Leopard background picture is intentionally ugly.

What an asinine comment.

[swiz]

I really hope they come up with a new variation on the typical OSX desktop blue dealio.
Each one looks better than its predecessor and is usually the desktop I stick with longer than any other.

[MartiNZ]

I quite liked the grass desktop when I first saw it, and put it on all the screens I use often, then changed it to the space one when it was happily posted. The grass got a lot of positive comments from people, but it looked so much shinier in the leopard preview movies, and I don't think that was just because of the reflective dock and transluscent menubar.

The desktop I've stuck with longest, I would say, is the third hit on a Google image search for true aqua.

[Taylor C]

I like the default Tiger wallpaper. :/

[mdc]

Originally Posted by swiz 

I really hope they come up with a new variation on the typical OSX desktop blue dealio.
Each one looks better than its predecessor and is usually the desktop I stick with longer than any other.

I agree. I find myself coming back to the blue wallpaper very often.
If they don't design a new one, I'll probably still use the 10.4 one.

Regarding the new wallpaper. I notice it has a lot of dark areas on it. When a window is over those areas can you still see the drop shadow? That's one reason I do not use a very dark desktop picture, since I like the drop shadows under windows.

[DKeithA]

The Aurora desktop image is the best one Apple has ever done (IMO).

[- - e r i k - -]

The drop shadows are very subtle in this build, so it does tend to get a bit "lost" over darker areas. I don't mind though.

[elrah]

I love both the Grass and the Aurora.

But I hope for a new Blue abstract as well.

[angelmb]

Is by any chance this one with the water lily included?

[Brian Live]

You can mock-up your screen with the new Aurora Borealis wallpaper now if you'd like...

http://imacmotion.deviantart.com/art...Space-63365295

[osxpinot]

I really love the Blue Tiles wallpaper.

[red rocket]

I really wish people would stop calling it ‘wallpaper’. It's a bloody desktop, what kind of retard puts fụcking wallpaper on a desk?

I like both the grass and the aurora desktop pictures, but generally prefer the lighter backdrops.

[phoenix78]

Originally Posted by red rocket 

I really wish people would stop calling it ‘wallpaper’. It's a bloody desktop, what kind of retard puts fụcking wallpaper on a desk?

I like both the grass and the aurora desktop pictures, but generally prefer the lighter backdrops.

Those kinds of words are bad karma. you know that right? such passion over wallpaper/desktop lol.

I dont mind the green grass and the aurora ones... i wouldnt keep em as a desktop for more than a day though... only when i need a change. They get boring real quick. My dog will go straight to my desktop pic as it is now

rob.

[imitchellg5]

Originally Posted by angelmb 

Is by any chance this one with the water lily included?

Yep! Or at least one very similar...

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by imitchellg5 

Yep! Or at least one very similar...

Huh? Which one are you talking about?

[imitchellg5]

I know one like it was in an older build. Don't know if it's still in there, I haven't booted Leopard for a while. It could always be MacWorld's own wallpaper, but I remember one similar to that with a water lily.

[loki74]

Originally Posted by swiz 

I really hope they come up with a new variation on the typical OSX desktop blue dealio.
Each one looks better than its predecessor and is usually the desktop I stick with longer than any other.

very true.

[mdc]

I just noticed the blue version of the 10.5 wallpaper on the Mac OS X Server page.

I like it in blue. The only thing I'm not crazy about is that the bottom is dark and dropshadows vanish when windows are over black.

[DogGone]

If you don't like the frigging desktop picture then change it.

[TheoCryst]

I may end up swapping the purple wallpaper for Server's blue when it comes out. It's just so... soothing.

[- - e r i k - -]

Anyone have the full version of that one already? I've seen the server floating around, so...

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DogGone 

If you don't like the frigging desktop picture then change it.

Yeah. DTP are easier to change than other things. So I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like you have to hack the system to change the DTP.

[DKeithA]

I hate the Server version. It is just a modified version of the regular Aurora and it looks terribly washed-out and bland in person.

[cleary_jp]

[QUOTE=red rocket;3507172]I really wish people would stop calling it ‘wallpaper’. It's a bloody desktop, what kind of retard puts fụcking wallpaper on a desk?

I like both the grass and the aurora desktop pictures, but generally prefer the lighter backdrops.[/QUOTE

What kind of retard cares if I call it wallpaper or a desktop.... Take it easy there redrocket, I dont want you to crush your mouse (or do you call that a pointing device?)

[Kevin]

I love it when people get all hysterical for using words in ways they don't approve of or like. No offense to you red-rocket.

[maxneosynthetic]

Leopard Server Aurora Wallpaper: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...480&size=o

It´s the original one.
Best!

[mdc]

Very nice, thank you.
It's my new work desktop picture.

[nikstar101]

If i remember correctly Wallpaper is a Windows term whereas Desktop was a Mac term. Well there isn't much different really!!

The blue server version is nicer though.

[angelmb]

Does anyone know if this desktop from the Guide Tour comes with Leopad?, if so would be so kind to…

[adamfishercox]

I think it's already in Tiger, and if not, they called it one of Leopard's standard desktop pictures, so I would assume yes.

[angelmb]

Yes, it's slightly similar to the stones one in Tiger, but not the same

[- - e r i k - -]

It's under Nature. So yes.

[treday630]

I honestly think they used the grass wallpaper to really show off the translucent menu bar.

[Kevin]

I LOVE OS X's new box and space look. I just wish their GUI would match it over all. Time Machine, and a neat DTP are the only two things that OS X has that looks "Sci-Fi"

[Judge_Fire]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Time Machine, and a neat DTP are the only two things that OS X has that looks "Sci-Fi"

Hmm, as in airbrushed cover art for 80s sci-fi paperbacks... but hey, some good books there

[adamfishercox]

Originally Posted by treday630 

I honestly think they used the grass wallpaper to really show off the translucent menu bar.

You think right.

[beez1717]

well... I will still use the same old desktop picture I was using before....