Hi All, IMHO I think the netbook launcher should replace the standard desktop icons Nautilus draws it's sweet and practical (and not just for netbooks); but one could add an option for mouse interactivity to many of the xscreensaver hacks, that'd be a fair cool way of implementing some like what the mod asked for... (of course like many other graphical distractions these can already be made to draw on the desktop / root window with a single command line option)
As for playing video on the desktop - shouldn't that be a feature request for the totem devs? [MPlayer has a "-rootwin" option to draw video to the desktop] If anyone wants to implement realise this as any kind of new project - my suggestion is to please consider making it as a Gnome project but not explicitly part of gnome-shell, the feature just doesn't need to be implemented in the project and can be implemented better (I think) seperately. Nat On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:56:54 +0000 > From: Sam Illingworth <[email protected]> > To: Shane Fagan <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: live wallpaper > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On 16 Jan 2010, at 04:39 PM, Shane Fagan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 01:32 +0900, matsuo wrote: > >> (2010?01?17? 01:09), Shane Fagan wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 01:07 +0900, matsuo wrote: > >>> > >>>> (2010?01?17? 00:04), Shane Fagan wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 23:51 +0900, matsuo wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> hi i am new to gnome-shell mailing list > >>>>>> > >>>>>> i recently saw a video about the new android OS and it has a cool > >>>>>> feature that ins't available in any desktop environment as far > >>>>>> as i know. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> it is called live wallpaper and it is really simple. the > >>>>>> wallpaper of > >>>>>> your desktop become interactive(if you click on a button in the > >>>>>> desktop, > >>>>>> the wallpaper shows some form of effect. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> here is a video showing live wallpaper > >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1YBcYw_qE > >>>>>> > >>>>>> what do you think about implementing this in gnome shell > >>>>>> > >>>>>> i would like to hear your feedback > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> Well you can use gifs or svgs with animation so it can be done > >>>>> already. > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards > >>>>> Shane Fagan > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> I know that it is possible, i wanted to hear about actually making > >>>> this a > >>>> > >>>> default or something which can be done with a few click. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> It can be done with a single click at the moment. You just have to > >>> have > >>> an animated image and it is part of the default. > >>> > >>> Shane > >>> > >>> > >> of course if you are a programmer and have experience, it will be > >> easy, > >> but if you are a newbie which i think a lot of ubuntu user are now, > >> it > >> isn't that easy i think. > > > > It shouldnt take too much programming, just detect the click event > > get x > > and y then do what you want with that info to the svg. I dont really > > see > > the point in actually doing it but it wouldnt be too hard for anyone > > (with a little googling). > > > > > > Shane > > I think that's what he's suggesting the developers should do. He's > asking for a feature - it's not a feature if you have to code it > yourself. > > Personally, I'd be happy with a nice user driedly GUI front end for > setting up xwinwrap to play certain videos or apps as my background, > while also displaying icons, but I think Matsuo's idea is nice too. At > the moment Gnome has, unless you're willing and able to devote a lot > of technical expertise to changing it yourself, far less visual flare > than other OS frotends, it'd be great to change that, not just to play > catch up but to offer more and cooler effects than other OSes, without > needing to be a technical wiz to enable it. > > Sam > > ------------------------------ > >
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