Re: live wallpaper



On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 18:18 +0000, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth
wrote:
> 2010/1/17 Joern Konopka <cldx3000 googlemail com>
>         Hi All, i hope i did everthing right considered this is my
>         first Mailing List Answer EVER, but i just wanted to lose some
>         words about the Live Wallpapers.
>         
>         
>         Im not gonna delve into the discussion about Nautilus drawing
>         the Icons since its quite a Topic for itself.
>         
>         
>         I think implementing Live Wallpapers at this point of
>         gnome-shell development is just too much to ask for honestly,
>         it might look nice at first sight but we really should focus
>         on more important stuff right now like f.e. getting an
>         Extension System rolled out, have some Customization Options
>         integrated into the Shell for switching the Black Look to
>         something more personalized (some people love a pink or blue
>         background, simple as that), make the new Notifier System
>         really usable (in a PRODUCTIVE way), have good Zeitgeist
>         Integration thats really giving User advantages while browsing
>         Recent Files, have more Keyboard Actions for the Shell so
>         people wont have to click on pretty much everything and so on
>         and so on, i could point out a list of maybe 50 features and
>         the Live Wallpapers would be way below that list. 
>         
>         
>         Im not saying it totally sucks, maybe some people will
>         actually like it, but we should focus on giving everybody a
>         good Working Experience for the Everday Tasks before we start
>         thinking about Features that exist mainly for Eyecandy. 
>         
>         
> 
> I wish I didn't, but I agree with that.  Gnome-Shell (and Gnome 3 in
> general) should be functional before it's pretty. 
> 
> 
> The problem with that, if Gnome 2 is anything to go by, is the
> developer attention may never go to making it all look
> sexy, especially not in terms of additional features rather than just
> changing the colours.  For example, we still don't have global support
> for transparency in GTK.
> 
> -- 
> Sam Illingworth
> Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom
Canonical is bringing transparency in GTK for ubuntu lucid and they are
pushing the code upstream so its coming.

Shane



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