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

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

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

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Still the Long Term Plan does not seem to cover being able to pick
> just any background and have it just change the bg color over time ;)

That sort of thing is certainly intended to be covered by the
Plan, along with other types of animations. 

I don't mean to discourage work on a feature that would just change
the background color over time. It should be fairly straight forward
to do in gnome-bg.[ch], if someone wants to add it.

Part of the motivation for the Long Term Plan is to get the various
types of backgrounds into one conceptual framework. I believe this
will simplify the gnome-bg.c code substantially while making it
possible to add features such as Bryan's background channels that were
talked about a while back.

But that doesn't mean a simple color changing feature couldn't be
added now.


Soren