On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:44 +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > A long time ago I wrote code to do timelapsed backgrounds. I missed > the freeze for 2.20, so now I am submitting it for 2.22. > > The idea is that the background gradually fades between a number of > images over the course of a day. One example would be a set of images > taken at the same location at different times of the day. > > >From an artist's point of view, the timelapsed background is an XML > file containing filenames of the images to fade between and > indications of how long to show each image. > This kind of thing becomes much easier when the background isn't in control of Nautilus; a while back we commissioned some patches to make the desktop window transparent under a composited window manager and thus leave the background up to other things. Would there be interest in picking these patches up upstream as default? http://people.freedesktop.org/~racarr/nautilus.debdiff http://people.freedesktop.org/~racarr/libeel.debdiff Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott ubuntu com
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