Re: Future Idea (waywayway future)

[Fabrice Colin <fabrice colin muscat com>]

> From: Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Glenn Valenta wrote:
> 
> > It would be very cool to have an animated background for a desktop or window. I
> > was envisioning something like the water01.jpg from the gnome share dir. that
> > would ripple like your looking at the bottom of a pool.(whole screen, unlike
> > the desktop effects) I envision that animated background could first be
> > implemented inside of windows such as the gnome terminal. And as
> > computers/graphicscards get more powerful, the whole desktop. Other ideas would
> > be to have a screen full of gears that rotate or even some type of ever
> > changing scenery of landscape, much like a ride in the country as viewed out of
> > a car window, maybe even the front window. It could use mpeg2 HiDef video as a
> > source, (1980x1080) but only at a few frames per second or even as slow as a
> > frame a minute.
> > 
> > I'm sure that computers and graphics cards are a little slow atm and such an
> > implementation would be such a memory hog right now, (particularly for my
> > 1600x1200 display) but I thought I'd throw it up for discussion since the list
> > seems to be slow today...
> 
> What you are saying is already possible. For example many of the 
> 'xscreensaver' items can be used on your root background, instead of as a 
> screensaver.
This reminds me of WBAnim on the Amiga. It s an old proggy that enables
to run an animation in the root window of the Workbench. Is there any
mpeg/avi/... player for X that does that ?
Just curious.

Fabrice