Re: Timelapsed backgrounds

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 9/26/07, Sanford Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2007 08:44:16 +0200, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk> wrote:
> > A long time ago I wrote code to do timelapsed backgrounds. I missed
> > the freeze for 2.20, so now I am submitting it for 2.22.
> >
> > The idea is that the background gradually fades between a number of
> > images over the course of a day. One example would be a set of images
> > taken at the same location at different times of the day.
>
> This sounds really cool!  Is there any support for for changing the
> background at a specific time of day?  That way you could show morning
> images in the morning, evening images in the evening, etc.  I don't
> see how you could guarantee that with durations (as in the sample XML
> file), unless you always logged in at the same time every day.  ;-)
>

The background we ship in Fedora has

<background>
  <starttime>
    <year>2007</year>
    <month>8</month>
    <day>28</day>
    <hour>0</hour>
    <minute>0</minute>
    <second>0</second>
  </starttime>

in the xml file. So it is possible to tie the animation to a certain
time of day.

Matthias