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Idea #4716: Smart Environment

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #3295: Desktop theme must involve with the time..
Written by dilomo the 15 Mar 08 at 10:21. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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It would be cool to have a theme that changes (colours) during the day or have a screen saver that in the winter is snowing and in the fall there should be leaves falling.

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Written by dilomo the 15 Mar 08 at 10:21.
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Auzy wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 13:36
This is like Dreamscapes for windows i think.. Or the use of quartz backgrounds for OSX (with a custom proggie). The issue is, we need a framework to do this, and I cant personally think of anything we have that can do this :(

vexorian wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 16:12
It is possible right now, well not easy, but possible, you can make a gtk theme with flexible colors and use a script to update it according to the time, the problem I can think of is that the screen might flicker for a second during the theme change...

dilomo wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 20:41
The flicker may be a problem because these things should change smooth as the day->night sky. The app should be integrated well with GNOME as the keyboard break is.

allo wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 22:56
sounds like someone should write a compiz-decorator with this ability.

tbrminsanity wrote on the 7 May 08 at 17:10
This is one of the things I enjoy when I play my PS3. The default background changes over the day and over the year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XrossMediaBar#PlayStation_3_XMB

It would be cool if there was a default theme that mimics the colours in Africa over the year + the time of day. I think that would make more people "love brown" and it would give the OS a very unique look and feel.


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