Re: animated icons/applets?

[bratsche dfw net]

I don't think you can do this for a desktop icon. But for panel applets,
I'd recommend using the GnomeAnimator object so long as you're using
gnome-libs 1.0.9 at least.

Cody

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Joshua Weitz wrote:

> Does anyone know if it's possible to use animated icons
> on the desktop?  It's possible to have a panel applet use
> animated PNG files (mailcheck for example), but I haven't
> been able to figure out how to get a simple desktop
> icon to boogy/shake/sit and spin/etc.  I tried setting the icon
> properties to an animated PNG file, but no luck, I think
> IMlib doesn't know how to deal with multiple frames?
> I also tried defining my own mimetype so that the icon would
> animate by default, that didn't work either.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> cheers,
> Joshua Weitz
> 
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