On 17 Mar 2003 16:52:25 +0100 Cristalle Azundris Sabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I think that was just about everybody's plan, really, with the sole
> > > reason for it not having been implemented yet being that we've neve
On Mon 17 Mar 2003, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2003 10:27:18 +0100 Cristalle Azundris Sabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> babbled:
>
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > my eventual plans are to have the desktop background managed by a
> > > separate process to e
On 17 Mar 2003 10:27:18 +0100 Cristalle Azundris Sabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > my eventual plans are to have the desktop background managed by a
> > separate process to e - evidence would be one, or any other you want
> > to p
Cristalle Azundris Sabon wrote:
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
my eventual plans are to have the desktop background managed by a
separate process to e - evidence would be one, or any other you want
to put there that works with e.
I think that was just about everyb
On Thu 13 Mar 2003, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>
> I'm not having html on e's desktop. it's a limited formatting language, slow to
> parse & turn into usable data for a process to display. and bugger if i'm going
> to write a web browser to make people happy & do this. if someone else wants to
> go w
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:41 GMT, Richard Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Could this whole discussion be made irrelevant if people could
> "full-screen" (borderless) an application and push it to the bottom
> layer? Then anyone could effectivly make *any* application their
> background. I a
At 01:56 PM 3/13/2003 +0100, Stefan Held wrote:
Am Don, 2003-03-13 um 11.28 schrieb Richard Martin:
> Personally I would never have a flash backdrop (actually my desktops
> are so cluttered I never even see my backdrops), but I can imagine
> people wanting it.
>
So do i, but do you agree that peopl
Am Don, 2003-03-13 um 11.28 schrieb Richard Martin:
> Strange... I thought E was about user choice and flexibility, not
> making assumptions about what people will or will not want.
>
Youre Right. It is.
> Personally I would never have a flash backdrop (actually my desktops
> are so cluttered I
Strange... I thought E was about user choice and flexibility, not making
assumptions about what people will or will not want.
Personally I would never have a flash backdrop (actually my desktops are
so cluttered I never even see my backdrops), but I can imagine people wanting
it.
Question:
Co
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:59:47 -0500 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:
> At 06:36 PM 3/12/2003 +0100, Stefan Held wrote:
> >Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 10.17 schrieb Richard Martin:
> > > Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
> > >
> > > Why not make the background an html browser which sup
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:59:47PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> Is this seriously being considered for E 17 ?? Hah, I remember someone
> suggested it two years ago maybe, a la MS Windows "Active Desktop", and it
> was promptly shot down. Comments like it will "never" happen were made by
> R
Hall Stevenson wrote:
At 06:36 PM 3/12/2003 +0100, Stefan Held wrote:
Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 10.17 schrieb Richard Martin:
> Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
>
> Why not make the background an html browser which supports plug-ins.
> That way backgrounds could be written in plain html, ht
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:12:13 GMT, Richard Martin said:
> Security is the browser's responsibility. You cannot blame a language
> for insecure implementations of it. (You *can* blame for trying to be
> too much like Java whilst discarding type-safety, using a different
> inheritance model etc. -
At 06:36 PM 3/12/2003 +0100, Stefan Held wrote:
Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 10.17 schrieb Richard Martin:
> Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
>
> Why not make the background an html browser which supports plug-ins.
> That way backgrounds could be written in plain html, html with
> javascript or
Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 10.17 schrieb Richard Martin:
> Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
>
> Why not make the background an html browser which supports plug-ins.
> That way backgrounds could be written in plain html, html with
> javascript or even Flash. You can't get more flexible than th
Security is the browser's responsibility. You cannot blame a language for
insecure implementations of it. (You *can* blame for trying to be too much
like Java whilst discarding type-safety, using a different inheritance model
etc. -- but that is another story.)
I think the html with plug-ins m
* Richard Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
>
> Why not make the background an html browser which supports plug-ins.
> That way backgrounds could be written in plain html, html with
> javascript or even Flash. You can't get more flexible than that.
I
Sorry to kick up this thread again, but...
Why not make the background an html browser which supports plug-ins. That
way backgrounds could be written in plain html, html with _javascript_ or even
Flash. You can't get more flexible than that.
Corey Donohoe wrote:
* Ibukun Olumuyiwa ([EMAIL
Bartley J.Kleypas ?:
Actualy, I was kidding. I hang out on the IRC channel a lot, and people
laff at me for wanting realtime satalight picture backgrounds, auto
updating with a website, while having backgrounds that would be kinda
like old-school side scrolling video games, ie mario and sonic
; >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Arlo White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:33 PM
> >> Subject: [E-devel] Background displays Weather
> >>
> >>
>
* Ibukun Olumuyiwa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu 27 Feb 2003, Corey Donohoe wrote:
> > * Ibukun Olumuyiwa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > I'm thinking more of a generally programmable/customizable background
> > > manager that can do much more than just rotate between a bunch of
> > > static
* Ibukun Olumuyiwa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm thinking more of a generally programmable/customizable background
> manager that can do much more than just rotate between a bunch of
> static pictures, but actually do some animation, dynamic content etc.
> (this sounds like some feature expansio
t postion of the sun or moon are.. based on the locale of the
>> computer.
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Arlo White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:33 PM
>> Subject: [E-devel] B
nal Message -
> From: "Arlo White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:33 PM
> Subject: [E-devel] Background displays Weather
>
>
> > I just had an idea that seemed kinda cool.
> > What if your
Dan wrote:
Robert Benton wrote:
Heh, Yea and drop shadows on the windows that reflect where the current
postion of the sun or moon are.. based on the locale of the computer.
Now we're talking.
ETA anyone?
Please remain calm. I'm kidding.
If this was the gnome list I would have taken this thr
Robert Benton wrote:
Heh, Yea and drop shadows on the windows that reflect where the current
postion of the sun or moon are.. based on the locale of the computer.
Now we're talking.
ETA anyone?
Please remain calm. I'm kidding.
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Subject: [E-devel] Background displays Weather
> I just had an idea that seemed kinda cool.
> What if your background represented the weather/moonphase/etc. You could
> have some sort of outdoor scenery and then on top place clouds and show
> animated rain to represent the weather
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:33:27 -0800 "Arlo White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> I just had an idea that seemed kinda cool.
> What if your background represented the weather/moonphase/etc. You could
> have some sort of outdoor scenery and then on top place clouds and show
> animated rain to represe
I just had an idea that seemed kinda cool.
What if your background represented the weather/moonphase/etc. You could
have some sort of outdoor scenery and then on top place clouds and show
animated rain to represent the weather in your area. You could also have
the moon/sun positioned to represent
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