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[Joseph Hughes <josephhughes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or, of course, implement something like Android's live wallpapers into Gnome
;)

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/live-wallpapers.html

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Joseph Hughes <josephhughes@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I believe that Gnome has supported .svg wallpapers for some time. Is there
> any reason why you're not considering using this? A quick search returned
> this example. Refresh to see it change, and view the source to see how
> simple the code is:
> http://www.treebuilder.de/default.asp?file=205288.xml
>
> Here's an svg wallpaper for KDE which gets closer to what you're looking
> for:
> http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Hydrogen?content=128829
>
> With an experienced svg artist, it would be rather easy to create a
> compelling (and dynamic) scene. If Canonical were to provide the layered
> file of the current wallpaper, perhaps you could set it up as a challenge to
> attract the attention of some svg experts? I'll even have a go.
>
> Are there any technical issues I haven't considered? Performance?
> Compatibility? You could of course use a static .jpg as a fallback.
>
> Best,
> Joseph
>