Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or "get yourself a PlayStation 3")

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

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Did you look at Soeren's code for fading backgrounds in 2.24?
>
> I remember the discussion but 2.24 does not seem to ship that feature
> (or at least it is not discoverable here). Will look into it.
>

Support for animated and multi-resolution backgrounds is in gnome-desktop 2.24.

Soeren wrote a bit about it e.g. here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00530.html

and I explained things here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-August/msg00170.html

and

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-January/msg00223.html


Hope that helps,

Matthias