All GNOME Backgrounds is a website that showcases all versions of all wallpapers that have been included in the GNOME default backgrounds in the past.
The images are encoded as WebP and can be found in the data/images directory. The data directory also contains JSON files with some metadata about the images.
I like a specific version of the Symbolic wallpaper that was included in GNOME in the past, but I was not able to easily find it on the internet, because the gnome-backgrounds repository removes previous versions of the wallpapers. Searching through old commits is not very convenient, so I decided to create this website to make it easier to find the wallpapers.
To build and run the website, you will need to install some dependencies. These dependencies can be obtained using the Nix package manager by running the command nix develop.
Before running the website, you will need to prepare the data and images. To do so, run the following commands: yarn prepareImages, yarn prepareThumbnails, yarn prepareJson, and yarn start. This will create all the necessary files based on the GNOME Backgrounds data.
Finally, to start the Next.js server, run yarn next dev.
To update the data on the website with the latest content from the GNOME Backgrounds repository, run the command make data.
You may have noticed that the authors of the backgrounds are not mentioned anywhere on the website. This is because it was not possible to reliably parse author information from the GNOME Backgrounds repository. Most of the newer backgrounds were created by Jakub Steiner, but I am unsure about the older ones. If you would like to fix this, feel free to open a PR.