It sounds like an interesting idea. One thing I wonder about with anything that changes the screen synchronized to a clock is if it can be randomized somewhat so that it wouldn't cause a network storm in cases where all thin client screens attached to a single server are set to goatse at precisely 12:00a.m.
I wouldn't want the screens to change frequently in a thin client environment and I would want to be able to disable this feature as well as any fade-out effects. Thomas H.P. Andersen wrote: > Desktop backgrounds are boring. Even though it's damn easy to change > I would like the capability of having different virtual desktops have different backgrounds. People have been asking for that feature since GNOME 1.4. > the background few people I know do it regularly. (Mine usually only > change when some jerk comes by and decides my new background should be > goatse :-) ) Having the background change subtly over time sounds like > a very nice feature to me. > > Here is a slightly extreme idea. How about a dbus interface for > changing the background? I guess all it should take is a path to an > image and fade the background to it. > I think background image setting belongs in gconf (or whatever configuration manager you're using) That way system administration tools which are designed to set user desktop parameters don't require a special case for desktop background. For example, in low-bandwidth thin client environments, it's sometimes useful to force all user desktop backgrounds to something low bandwidth. Also in a secure or medical environment you might want to set the screens of all employees of a certain level (DR, top secret gurumeister...) to a particular background. > I actually thought about this the other day as I wanted to have my IM > application change the background to the person I'm talking to. I like > pictures of family and friends as my background but I just never get > around to changing it. There is also an application to fetch > interesting flickr pictures and put them as background as well. Having > an easy interface to change it might spark even more innovative ideas > too. > > > On 26 Sep 2007 17:35:21 +0200, Soeren Sandmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Sanford Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> This sounds really cool! Is there any support for for changing the >>> background at a specific time of day? That way you could show morning >>> images in the morning, evening images in the evening, etc. >>> >> Yes, this is exactly the intention. >> >> >>> I don't see how you could guarantee that with durations (as in the >>> sample XML file), unless you always logged in at the same time every >>> day. ;-) >>> >> The slides.xml file has: >> >> <starttime> >> <year>2007</year> >> <month>8</month> >> <day>28</day> >> <hour>12</hour> >> <minute>21</minute> >> <second>23</second> >> </starttime> >> >> which means the first slide would be shown at that time. If the sum of >> durations is 24 hours, then the cycle would start over at the same >> time every day. >> >> >> >> Soren >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
