> What was the point of hiding the wallpapers by moving them to the obsolete
> folder?  It seems to me that the artwork package can increase somewhat in
> size without ill effects as it is optional and storage space has
> drastically increased over the past decade or more.
> I know several of the wallpapers in that folder are "old standbys" to
> users here; I don't see why we can't ship them normally.

My original idea was to remove sevaral more old-style wallpapers and add a few more modern ones.
After discussions on this ML (mainly with E. and Alex), we decided to change only a few ones to prevent estranging the final users, at the same time without overpopulating the list of available wallpapers when tdebase and tdeartwork were installed (the list is already too long IMO). Further, we decided to make the removed wallpapers "manually" available in case it was necessary., that's why there is the 'obsolete' folder.

There is no problem in changing things again if required, as long as we all agree on a final version (either use the obsolete folder as it is now or just leave of the wallpapers available).

Cheers
  Michele