I've grown to love the PS3's background fading feature so I've decided to give it a go for GNOME. What PS3 does is pick a color depending on the time of the year then slowly fade that color to black over the day. See the attachment for a proof of concept implementation (just run it and let it continue through your day). Sorry for bugging you guys here but I don't have the time to create a proper patch for Nautilus (and the Appearance capplet to let you pick "adjust over time" instead of the "solid color" / "gradient") and I'm not on teh planets to spread the love. Hope you like it and someone finds time for a proper implementation. The colors are taken verbatim from the PS3 but I think we could do better with some Tango palette love. Making it part of Nautilus shouldn't be a problem as it only wakes up once every 5 minutes. Cheers ;) -- Patryk Zawadzki
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