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#406: Animated Desktop
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Written by sboutwell the 29 Feb 08 at 01:37.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Ok so all of the other systems out there are now supporting Animated Desktops. Time for linux to support it. Icon animation as well as Images on the Desktop animated behind the Icons.
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Graf wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:25
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Unnecessary visual eye candy isn't what ubuntu should be working on right now.
There is a lot of core functionality that should be implemented first.
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wolfwitch wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 15:33
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Agreed. Eye candy is one of the things that makes Vista suck so badly. I think most people use their computers to get work done- which means they don't look at icons on their desktop all day. I suppose my cats would enjoy watching animated icons when I'm not there, but that's what I have screen savers for.
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softsaurus wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 18:12
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I partly agree, but most people judge by what they see.
Not that the Human theme is ugly, not at all, but visual effects are indeed ways of drawing more people into using ubuntu, therefore expanding the community. The bigger the community the faster the advance in functionality. Maybe these posibilities will inspire more interface designers to participate.
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Redrazor39 wrote on the 7 May 08 at 22:06
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I think we should take animated desktops one step further and have interactive desktops.
Have a few preloaded in some special format that when you click and hold and move the mouse over the screen, we see a water wave effect. When you have an open window, bubbles subtly radiate from the borders and gentle waves come from the sides. When you move the window, the water is disturbed and creates small waves where the window was just as if you moved a plastic sheet over water.
Now THAT would be really cool
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Auzy wrote on the 8 May 08 at 01:45
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Well, we shouldn't be voting on what should be done, we should be voting on whether we want it or not.
Because, one thing about programmers, is that we work on programs we are passionate about. If there is enough demand for visual enhancements, someone may want to work on it.
Like I'm not getting paid, but I'd like to see some things done.
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retj wrote on the 8 May 08 at 03:46
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This would be alright if it were Gnome Brainstorm... Ubuntu can modify gnome until certain point, what you ask is like you wanted a KDE 3.5 desktop work like KDE 4 desktop environment, these kind of features do not depend (at least, directly) of your distro, it depends of the desktop environment that you're using...
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lunamystry wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 17:20
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I LOVE EYECANDY. I thought of moving to enlightenment just for the eyecandy but i thought i may miss some KDE or gnome functionality. I COMPIZ doesnt work with it cnt remember. my point is, as mentioned before, the look can draw people and if someone out there is willin to develop eyecandy for ubuntu i think it should be considered.
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pierre.slamich@gmail.com wrote on the 17 Jul 08 at 21:45
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Let the wallpaper be a video or an animated file (apng, svg, whatever..)
This could be done using the webkit engine as it now handles the video element as well as animated svgs
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gavintlgold wrote on the 4 Aug 08 at 06:35
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I just want to show people what's possible RIGHT NOW:
1. Get xwinwrap from http://www.getdeb.net/app/xwinwrap
2. Change wallpaper to all white.
3. Run: nice -n 15 xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -o .50 -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/plasma --speed 1 --maxfps 15 -window-id WID in a terminal.
Isn't that great? Added bonus: since it's using nice the cpu is allowed to do other more important tasks first. I'm actually using this as a constant desktop background, I added it to the startup apps.
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gavintlgold wrote on the 4 Aug 08 at 06:36
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To clarify: I am not trying to condemn this brainstorm as being "done already" ... I agree that that command is horribly complex-looking to any new user. I actually was planning on writing a gui to xwinwrap that would be like the gnome-screensaver-settings app but I am so new to pygtk I got stuck on treeviews :-/ ... I think I will get the hang of it someday. :D
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