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Originally Posted by Faterson
I'm not sure what you're talking about here, but Marvin must definitely keep all of the font and solid-background colours it offers now! The incredible amount of available colours is, once again, one of Marvin's strongest selling points. Just because some of us prefer textured backgrounds, doesn't mean the choice should be reduced in any way for those users who prefer solid-colour backgrounds.
What I proposed to Kris is to subdivide the current list of colours into subcategories, because the list is very long to scroll through right now if you (for example) wish to access colours from the bottom of the list.
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To me the list also feels quite long to scroll through, I thought the best way to offer a lot of choice in a small space would be a colour picker. Bluefire has three sliders, which offers all possible colours, but might not be very easy to use. My favourite would be a "colour wheel" like in many Apple apps. But that's quite low on my priority list.
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Originally Posted by Faterson
The more I've been thinking about textured backgrounds, the more convinced I become it would be simplest and smartest for Kris not to lose too much time over implementing this functionality -- although I consider it crucial for improving Marvin.
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I very much agree with the first part of the sentence
Textured backgrounds definitely come at the bottom of my wish list. There are some very cool backgrounds on the pages you linked, but I'd want them on a computer desktop or a website, definitely not behind text I want to read. I try hard to avoid everything that distracts my weary eyes.
Some of the "subtle patterns" that Kris referenced are nice though, I could imagine using some sort of paper look, but a red and black background would seriously count as torture for me
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Other than that, just give us a button, please, to upload our custom textured backgrounds for use in Marvin. 
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You wouldn't even need a button, if you could set your background locally. Stanza lets you do that.
This way nobody has to sacrifice their server for loads of pictures and textures ...