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Idea #10237: Support interactive SVG as desktop background

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #11682: Moving Wallpapers.
Written by natureflow the 24 Jun 08 at 15:00. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Then you could e.g use this as your desktop:
http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/demos/photos.svg

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Written by natureflow the 24 Jun 08 at 15:00.
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noodlesgc wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 16:40
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.

neon wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 16:42
That's awesome. @.@ I didn't know you could do that with SVG.

Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 17:21
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. :)

Primož Papič wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 17:34
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.

everlasting.puneet wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 18:14
really cool !! but this is very slow .. if made faster a bit then can be awesome thing
+1

Taku wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 19:47
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).

brettalton wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 20:41
Slow? Do you have a GPU (video card)?

Vadim P. wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:12
That's pretty amazing, didn't know you could do it with svg either.

Vadim P. wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:13
Oh guys. We were tricked. It's not an svg if you look at the source code - it's javascript.

_sebastian_ wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 22:18
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

gsiliceo wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 23:58
It is cool but i wish it wasnt so cpu consuming.

codedread wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:21
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).

eld1e6o wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:45
I do not think it is a good idea at this time

is striking but also heavy and without utility

Auzy wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:52
Actually, over here, its running perfectly

Auzy wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 03:53
Also, IF you are paranoid about resource usage, JUST DONT USE IT!!!!

But ffs, don't vote this down so that nobody else can

_sebastian_ wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 06:23
I had no speed issues here on my XP box. will check at home on Ubuntu again.

Lightbreeze wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 06:51
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)

hunt.topher wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 13:37
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?

sealview wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 11:21
That's just awesome

+1 and many more!

flammon wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 12:07
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.

Auzy wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 12:18
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..

Vadim P. wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 12:20
I think it's because ff3 for linux sucks on javascript performance, badly.

Some pages can even make your computer unusable. grrr

jhoger wrote on the 27 Jun 08 at 01:37
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?

uaneme wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 01:15
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?


Vadim P. wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 02:41
You already can with the compiz freewins plugin I think

lunarcloud wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 14:45
why not just use the picture frame plasmoid in kde4? it's the same as that svg.

BigDXLT wrote on the 20 Jul 08 at 07:45
^ 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.

++

retj wrote on the 23 Jul 08 at 06:53
Isn't that what Plasma already does?


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