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add official NixOS wallpapers (simple-blue and simple-dark-gray) - #78

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@louwers louwers commented Oct 12, 2026 •

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I am trying to update the default NixOS wallpapers, because right now they have 1080p resolution. See the screenshots in NixOS/nixpkgs#573404

I think that PR might be rejected on the basis that the wallpaper sources should not live in Nixpkgs. As #15 mentions they used to live in https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork which is now archived.

I'm hoping to get this PR merged so that I can update NixOS/nixpkgs#573404 to use the wallpapers in this directory. We might want to move over other (official) wallpapers (and/or convert them into SVG), but for now this is a good start I think.

PR created with assistance from Claude. PR description written by me.

@louwers louwers changed the title wallpapers: add simple-blue and simple-dark-gray add two official NixOS wallpapers (simple-blue and simple-dark-gray) Oct 12, 2026
@louwers louwers changed the title add two official NixOS wallpapers (simple-blue and simple-dark-gray) add official NixOS wallpapers (simple-blue and simple-dark-gray) Oct 12, 2026
Vector recreations of nix-wallpaper-simple-blue.png and
nix-wallpaper-simple-dark-gray.png (1920x1080, 2016) from the archived
nixos-artwork repository, using the nixos-logomark-white-flat-none
artifact.

The repository ignores *.svg as generated artifacts, so these are
force-added, like cake.svg.

Assisted-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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louwers force-pushed the wallpapers-simple-svg branch from f2616b7 to 2419fad Compare October 12, 2026 22:43
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Please let me know if I should port other wallpapers that were in NixOS/nixos-artwork. Just one dark/light background is enough for GNOME I think. And it's probably better to store it here instead of in the Nixpkgs repo.

Fit the disc's shadow, the background gradient and the disc radius
jointly to the 2016 original. The shadow is softer and lighter than
before (blur 7.1 instead of 6, opacity 0.15 instead of 0.18), and the
disc is slightly larger (radius 66.2 instead of 66).

Assisted-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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