Re: Future Idea (waywayway future)

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

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...

What you are saying is already possible. For example many of the 
'xscreensaver' items can be used on your root background, instead of as a 
screensaver.

Regards,
Ali