Sumit Agarwal wrote: > For this idea to work well it would need to utilize a compositing UI > engine. Its probably best to just wait a bit until that end of things > is more standardized. In this respect, OS's like Mac with its > CoreImage/Quartz/etc have an advantage with a sort of enforced > standardized way of doing such stuff. > > So basically, smoothly-transitioned slideshow backgrounds would need > to be a Compiz plug-in. This doesn't seem too difficult, and compiz is > now preinstalled in Ubuntu (am I correct?). > > -Sumit
Correct, but this would mean Compiz would then need to take over handling the desktop from Nautilus. A feat I would gather that would be a bit of work. Something the art-nerds on this list won't do in any case. ;) I guess we're all free to submit a patch. -Cory \m/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
