Re: [Ayatana] SVG default wallpaper was: OMG!

[baerjj@xxxxxxxxx]

Martin,

I remember some time back the Fedora community tried a concept where the wallpaper changed to the time of day.  There was much excitement about the proposal but I don't believe it stuck for more than one release. You could ping Mairin Duffy to discover the details.

What I found in my testing of svg wallpapers is 1) they look great, 2) complex images take a long time to load. :/

The solution to the load time may be compression but I don't know how that affects your proposal.

John

On Sep 5, 2010 1:07am, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 08:25 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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> > Hey, that's very cool.
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> It's a cool idea and it got a good response from the crowd.
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> > Something I wanted us to try was the idea of "convergence days", where
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> > we'd publish a data file quietly which would say "on such and such a
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> > date, try to be as close to this as possible", specifying the position
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> > and parameters of the various effects / lights / features. That way,
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> > we'd have weeks of divergence, then a "rush to convergence" over say 5
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> > days, so on a particular day everyone's desktop looks the same again.
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> Well you know how gullible I am for making things for free ;-), here you
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> go your feature request has been granted:
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> http://doctormo.org/2010/09/04/whoa-wheres-it-going/
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> > I thought of using constellations (playing again with "light") as
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> > inspiration, so you could have a "convergence day" like this:
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> The generate-plot.py script takes an svg input, so you dig out the svg
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> file and open in inkscape, enter the gen group (important!) and move
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> around each of the elements, rotate, skew your heart out until you have
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> your pattern. Save and then run through the plot generator and direct
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> output to plot.txt or some such.
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> $ generate-plot.py my-awesome-convergence.svg 2010-09-10 5 > plot.txt
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> That's from the 10th September converge for 5 days. It's progressive
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> convergence maths means if you execute it only on the last day it'll
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> move 100% of the way.
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> If this was packaged it'd go into a standard dir in usr share and be
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> updated by an updated package.
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> $ nudge-wallpaper.py wallpaper.svg plot.txt
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> Also code is published at
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> lp:~doctormo/doctormo-random/genetic-wallpapers and patches are welcome.
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> Best Regards, Martin Owens
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