The Ubuntu community has contributed 13882 ideas, 66434 comments, 1286163 votes
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#10237: Support interactive SVG as desktop background
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Written by natureflow the 24 Jun 08 at 15:00.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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noodlesgc wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 16:40
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Impressive, however, when I manipulated the images it was slow. Even is this was available for my wallpaper, I wouldn't use it. I'll give it a +1 because it blew my mind.
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neon wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 16:42
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That's awesome. @.@ I didn't know you could do that with SVG.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 17:21
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That was pretty cool.
Though, it was a bit slow on my 2.13 GHz computer. It needs to be faster in some way.
Pretty cool technology. Imagine that together with multi-touch input touchscreen. :)
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Primož Papič wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 17:34
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I already gave you +1. I just want to say this really is impressive. Especially the possibility of making things bigger and rottation. :D
But it takes a lot of time to load but then it works just fine, I'm guessing that if this was local file it wouldn't load for that amount of time.
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everlasting.puneet wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 18:14
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really cool !! but this is very slow .. if made faster a bit then can be awesome thing
+1
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Taku wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 19:47
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Quite nice but ... hm ... doesn't it make you remind the possible ugly ActiveDesktop (r) wallpaper of Win98 when the desktop crashes ? ... It would be interesting but we certainly couldn't allow win98-like desktop crashes (cause this isn't only svg, but nested javascript into svg).
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brettalton wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 20:41
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Slow? Do you have a GPU (video card)?
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Vadim P. wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:12
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That's pretty amazing, didn't know you could do it with svg either.
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Vadim P. wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:13
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Oh guys. We were tricked. It's not an svg if you look at the source code - it's javascript.
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_sebastian_ wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:18
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it seems to be a SVG with javascript doing all the work. Don't know if this is still a proper SVG.
still +1 because it impressed me so much :-O
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gsiliceo wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 23:58
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It is cool but i wish it wasnt so cpu consuming.
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codedread wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:21
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Folks, this is Firefox' SVG implementation - it doesn't mean that Ubuntu's implementation has to be as slow (WebKit and Opera's implementations are actually faster).
SVG on its own is just markup - but SVG can be combined with JavaScript and the SVG DOM (similar to the HTML DOM) to do very Flash-like things in web browsers. It would be really cool to do stuff like this in Ubuntu (I thought KDE 4.x was already advancing towards this).
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eld1e6o wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:45
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I do not think it is a good idea at this time
is striking but also heavy and without utility
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Auzy wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:52
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Actually, over here, its running perfectly
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Auzy wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:53
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Also, IF you are paranoid about resource usage, JUST DONT USE IT!!!!
But ffs, don't vote this down so that nobody else can
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_sebastian_ wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 06:23
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I had no speed issues here on my XP box. will check at home on Ubuntu again.
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Lightbreeze wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 06:51
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it worked beautfully for me. Asus 1.60ghz laptop. Average graphics card.
+1
(you should be able use languages other than javascript if it's on the desktop too)
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hunt.topher wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 13:37
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I'm guessing that part of the slowdown is because Firefox has to process the XML... an amazing idea, and if it's relatively easy to implement, ++1. This would be a great extra feature for higher-end systems; after all, Intrepid is supposed to be focusing on scaling performance to the system's capabilities, no?
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sealview wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 11:21
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That's just awesome
+1 and many more!
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flammon wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 12:07
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It is faster on Windows because of the hardware acceleration present there that is not on the Linux version of Cairo. Cairo is not fully hardware accelerated on Linux - even if you have the hardware and the proper drivers.
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Auzy wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 12:18
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Dunno if thats a good reason not to have it on linux though, but this is a good reason for Cairo to be improved on linux..
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Vadim P. wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 12:20
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I think it's because ff3 for linux sucks on javascript performance, badly.
Some pages can even make your computer unusable. grrr
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jhoger wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 01:37
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I'm not seeing the point here. Cool demo... but of what?
I hate fiddling with window positions. Why would I want the background to be fiddly? Who is it that hungers for fiddly backgrounds?
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uaneme wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 01:15
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It's pretty heavy on CPU -1 for that
looks good and innovative + 1 for that.
does this mean we can turn the browser upside down with a drag? (text included, scaled etc.) It does it only work with pictures?
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Vadim P. wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 02:41
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You already can with the compiz freewins plugin I think
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lunarcloud wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 14:45
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why not just use the picture frame plasmoid in kde4? it's the same as that svg.
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BigDXLT wrote on the 20 Jul 08 at 07:45
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^ That sort of thing is why I use KDE4 (though I admit I haven't used that particular plasmoid yet.) However, I'm sure such a feature isn't part of Ubuntu "regular."
The neat part to me isn't altogether the rotating and scaling, but having a couple of pictures at once. The traditional "made for the desktop" artwork probably wouldn't work well with it, but where it would be really neat is like that example with a few photos to make a nice mosaic without having to use something more complex like gimp, et al. Only change I'd like over that example is the ability to lock it, once I did set it, so random clicks aren't moving things around.
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retj wrote on the 23 Jul 08 at 06:53
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Isn't that what Plasma already does?
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