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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:

> > Hey, that's very cool.



> It's a cool idea and it got a good response from the crowd.



> > Something I wanted us to try was the idea of "convergence days", where

> > we'd publish a data file quietly which would say "on such and such a

> > date, try to be as close to this as possible", specifying the position

> > and parameters of the various effects / lights / features. That way,

> > we'd have weeks of divergence, then a "rush to convergence" over say 5

> > days, so on a particular day everyone's desktop looks the same again.



> Well you know how gullible I am for making things for free ;-), here you

> go your feature request has been granted:



> http://doctormo.org/2010/09/04/whoa-wheres-it-going/



> > I thought of using constellations (playing again with "light") as

> > inspiration, so you could have a "convergence day" like this:



> The generate-plot.py script takes an svg input, so you dig out the svg

> file and open in inkscape, enter the gen group (important!) and move

> around each of the elements, rotate, skew your heart out until you have

> your pattern. Save and then run through the plot generator and direct

> output to plot.txt or some such.



> $ generate-plot.py my-awesome-convergence.svg 2010-09-10 5 > plot.txt



> That's from the 10th September converge for 5 days. It's progressive

> convergence maths means if you execute it only on the last day it'll

> move 100% of the way.



> If this was packaged it'd go into a standard dir in usr share and be

> updated by an updated package.



> $ nudge-wallpaper.py wallpaper.svg plot.txt



> Also code is published at

> lp:~doctormo/doctormo-random/genetic-wallpapers and patches are welcome.



> Best Regards, Martin Owens







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