Re: Motion Picture Desktop background

[Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>]

Maybe it would be easier to have support for animated images as
backgrounds so that animated gifs and mngs could be used instead.

So if you have a VERY high quality mng you could get a pretty descent
moving background.

The problem is that animated gifs tend to be of pretty bad quality.
Second, this bug, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71267, means
that you can't use mng with gdk, you have to use lbmng directly.

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 06:50 +0000, david sipsolutions net wrote:
> Hi Nautilus folks,
> 
> this is of no priority what so ever, but a few weeks ago I was walking
> through the mall and saw some xp computers with a moving desktop
> background. That was some extra program, IIRC, but I thought it was really
> relaxing, since the landscape films being shown (nicely cut, so that you
> couldn't tell it was repeating) made the screen look like window. I
> realize that most of the time I have windows in front of my desktop
> background, but still.
> So if someone has the ambition to do maybe join forces with Totem and
> manage these motion pictures for Gnome, I'd be thrilled :)
> 
> Anyhow as I said it's just a gimmick sans priority.
> 
> Take care
> 
> David
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Daniel Brodie <daniel brodienet com>