Hi Owen, On 9/27/07, Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > My first reaction to this is "cool!" But then, I think.... how much of > the time is the desktop actually visible? It seems a bit of a wasteful > thing to spend CPU cycles animating something that's entirely obscured > by my full-screen web-browser/evolution/eclipse/etc. > > Maybe it makes sense to actually monitor desktop visibility in some > fashion so that you could still get the "cool, my desktop is matching > my time of day" effect without doing a full frame blend every 14 > seconds when nobody is looking at it. (This would probably require a > property exported by the CM, since only the CM really knows if the > desktop is currently visible)
That would be useful for other things too. Maybe: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481073 Jon _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
