Ronnie Tucker

I toyed with upgrading my Kubuntu Gutsy (7.10) to Hardy (8.04) but came to the conclusion that a fresh install would do me the world of good. My Gutsy had KDE4 bolted on to it with some KDE4 apps and various other junk installed so, yeah, time to start afresh.

This is my current desktop:

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It’s a marriage between KDE4 and Compiz Fusion overseen by the Rev. Hardy Heron.

I did try KDE4’s built in desktop effects but they were just too unreliable and slow, but Compiz Fusion is still (as ever) lightning fast. Add to that the Emerald window decorator and it’s looooooovely.

After my Bubble Bobble mosaics I thought I would try Link from the SNES game Zelda: A Link to the Past.

This one was a bit more tricky since the Zelda sprite has a black outline and a black outline on the shield. I paint the black outline using acrylic paint to save me from using up all my black tiles, so I had to remove the black outline from the sprite (in GIMP) and also remove the black outline between the shield and Link, so it took some preparation before I could even start the mosaic. But once that was done it was full speed ahead, and a few hours later it was done.

Voila! One Link!

For my next trick: a flying Mario from Super Mario World