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Along with numerous qualities and functionalities, Ubuntu for phones' home screen has been immediately noticed and visually appreciated by users, basically, the phone OS' home screen contains, in its center, an interesting rounded shape, generating a non-disturbing elegant look & feel.

Along with swiping gestures, fully enabled screen-edges, exciting native apps, etc, the recently announced Ubuntu for phones comes with a definitely interesting status-aware home screen.

Essentially, a rounded shape constantly exposes system notifications, such as missed calls, unread emails, etc, allowing the user to enjoy a both pleasant-to-the-eye and filled-with-functionalities home screen.

Ubuntu offers a pleasant-to-the-eye set of default wallpapers, aspect that can be enriched via numerous wallpaper-related applications (focused on both gathering images from online and offline sources, as well as creating slideshows).

Nevertheless, there are users "demanding" extra (as related to the used desktop wallpaper), extra in the sense of more-than-an-image, approach that can be satisfied via LiveWallpaper.

After selecting and landing the default wallpaper stack for Ubuntu 12.10, the developers have just published and landed in Quantal the default wallpaper.

The new default wallpaper definitely takes a different approach in terms of expressing the visual brand of Quantal Quetzal, combining warm colors with shadows, similar to a wave of colors.

The eye is to follow a solid yet fluid movement from the right-side to the left area of the screen, a movement of light encompassing the shiny Quantal desktop.

Days ago, the developers landed an initial work on the wallpaper set responsible for enriching and beautifying the Quantal desktop.

The set of default wallpapers have been selected from a community contest, basically, interested users have submitted wallpapers on a dedicated Flickr submission group, pack of backgrounds triaged, voted and selected for the default inclusion in Ubuntu 12.10.

Ubuntu default wallpapers are selected after an open community contest, where users submit wallpapers, wallpapers voted and landed in Ubuntu.

The Flickr-based submission contest ended on August 28th 2012, and, after the voting and selection process, the background pack has officially landed in Ubuntu 12.10.

Green plant with natural proportions, setting sun versus a red-ish flower, interesting nature snapshots, geometric patterns, abstract quetzal, come to deliver a professional selection suitable for numerous tastes.

Days ago, the developers launched a community contest, aimed at selecting Ubuntu 12.10's default wallpaper stack from wallpapers submitted by users, submission process ended on August 28th 2012.

The developers have published an initial wall shortlist, featuring (at the moment) 14 backgrounds, bundle of wallpapers that is to be further voted and reviewed for the official inclusion into Quantal.

Days ago, the developers launched a wallpapers contest, needed to select the default wallpaper stack for Ubuntu 12.10.

Basically, interested users can submit wallpapers to a dedicated Flickr group (untill August 28th 2012), from where a shortlist is selected, followed by the actual default wallpapers grouped and landed in Quantal Quetzal.

Ubuntu 12.04 already received its default wallpaper stack (including the default wallpaper), furthermore the developers have also fixed an annoying bug: if users were upgrading from, for instance, Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04, they were losing their default wallpapers (Ubuntu 11.10's community contest walls).

The default wallpaper pack has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 just now, refreshing the background stack with fancy new additions from the community wallpaper contest.

Days ago, the developers published two flavors of the default Precise wallpaper, one with a significant amount of "noise" and the other without noise.