Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
I've grown to love the PS3's background fading feature so I've decided to give it a go for GNOME. What PS3 does is pick a color depending on the time of the year then slowly fade that color to black over the day. See the attachment for a proof of concept implementation (just run it and let it

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: I've grown to love the PS3's background fading feature so I've decided to give it a go for GNOME. What PS3 does is pick a color depending on the time of the year then slowly fade that color to black over the day. Did you look at

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: I've grown to love the PS3's background fading feature so I've decided to give it a go for GNOME. What PS3 does is pick a color depending on the time of the year

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Stefan Kost
Hi, one thing I would love to see, is picture sets. Put a camera somewhere and taking 24 images from midnight to midnight. Then have some process crossfading them over the day in sync with the time. For people with exactly 4 workspaces one could have 4 of these sequences taken by the camera

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:50:32PM +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: I've grown to love the PS3's background fading feature so I've decided to give it a go for

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It uses some .xml file. Is there any documentation other than the sources available? My initial goal was being able to use any picture with alpha channel as the background and only have the underlying color change over time

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Thomas Thurman
Ysgrifennodd Patryk Zawadzki: Hope you like it and someone finds time for a proper implementation. The colors are taken verbatim from the PS3 but I think we could do better with some Tango palette love. Making it part of Nautilus shouldn't be a problem as it only wakes up once every 5 minutes.

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Thomas Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ysgrifennodd Patryk Zawadzki: Hope you like it and someone finds time for a proper implementation. The colors are taken verbatim from the PS3 but I think we could do better with some Tango palette love. Making it part of

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: I've grown to love the PS3's background fading feature so I've decided to give it a go

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 22 octobre 2008 à 12:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: I've grown to

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Bastien Nocera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 16:04 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: I've grown to

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Soeren Sandmann
As you say, the current animated background support doesn't do exactly what you want, but I do have Long Term Plans(tm) for something like it. Basically, I want to change the XML format to contain a more generalized description of backgrounds, including various types of animations. Solid colors

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Soeren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you say, the current animated background support doesn't do exactly what you want, but I do have Long Term Plans(tm) for something like it. Basically, I want to change the XML format to contain a more generalized

Re: Silly wallpaper hack (or get yourself a PlayStation 3)

2008-10-22 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Soeren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you say, the current animated background support doesn't do exactly what you want, but I do have Long Term Plans(tm) for something like it. Basically, I want to