![[Screenshot]](clouds-screenshot.jpg)
- Screenshot (Linux, X11 with WindowMaker)
- Download (version 1.0)
Microsoft's popular "Windows 95" introduced the company's cloud motif for its Windows line of operating systems. The idea was clear: that's that you see when you look out of the window. And those blue shades are so relaxing.
However, Windows 95 execution of the idea was poor at best. The clouds didn't look that good. Some of them looked kind of artificial. And some people even found out that those cloud patters contained strange patterns. In short: Windows 95 greatly ruined the reputation of clouds as background images.
It has been a principle in Free Software circles that it's cool to reimplement existing proprietary programs so that the new free versions are a) more stable, b) possibly more rich featured and possibly c) easy to use for the users of this proprietary program. Sometimes this leads to stupid plagiarism (KDE folks cloned Windows 95's "Find" applet which is NOT cool - for various reasons), sometimes this produces programs that are just plain cool compared to proprietary programs while providing much familiar with them (GIMP, which smells like PhotoShop but with perfume).
Since I'm not a Great Programmer, just a tinkerer and random Perl hacker, I wish to donate a few cloud images to the Project. These images are *photographs*, so I hope they don't look that artificial.
And since the development of Linux kernel started in Finland, I hope these these pictures of clear and clean Finnish sky are appropriate enough.
Back to the pictures for a second. Look at the cloud in the lower right corner. Rain coming? Time to close the Windows. =)