Re: Future Idea (waywayway future)

[Desmond Rivet <rivet ecf utoronto ca>]

I'm not a good judge of what's cool and what's not, but an animated
background sounds a bit...gratuitous to me. And distracting.

I suppose it would be a cool option, so long as it was very easily turned
off...

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Desmond Rivet          rivet ecf utoronto ca
Eng Sci 0T0 + PEY      rivet_d hotmail com

   You live and learn, or you don't live long

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Glenn Valenta wrote:

> It would be very cool to have an animated background for a desktop or window. I
> was envisioning something like the water01.jpg from the gnome share dir. that
> would ripple like your looking at the bottom of a pool.(whole screen, unlike
> the desktop effects) I envision that animated background could first be
> implemented inside of windows such as the gnome terminal. And as
> computers/graphicscards get more powerful, the whole desktop. Other ideas would
> be to have a screen full of gears that rotate or even some type of ever
> changing scenery of landscape, much like a ride in the country as viewed out of
> a car window, maybe even the front window. It could use mpeg2 HiDef video as a
> source, (1980x1080) but only at a few frames per second or even as slow as a
> frame a minute.
> 
> I'm sure that computers and graphics cards are a little slow atm and such an
> implementation would be such a memory hog right now, (particularly for my
> 1600x1200 display) but I thought I'd throw it up for discussion since the list
> seems to be slow today...
> 
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