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

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

As you say, the current animated background support doesn't do exactly
what you want, but I do have Long Term Plans(tm) for something like
it. 

Basically, I want to change the XML format to contain a more
generalized description of backgrounds, including various types of
animations. Solid colors and images and so on, would be first class
objects that could be operated on by operators such as "blend" etc.

But yes, "Long Term Plan" means in that in all likelihood I am not
going to work on it. I'll be happy to review patches though.


Soren




"Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org> writes:

> 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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