On 06/09/10 18:39, Martin Owens wrote:
> It uses all python standard libs. random, datetime and xml.dom.minidom
> so nothing special. The rendering is done by gnome and I just did a test
> with a 10.04 CD, renders there quite fine.
>
> So long as gnome hasn't ripped out it's svg support, we should
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:30 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> That rocks very hard indeed!
>
> Can you send me some sample SVG's so I can get a feel for the rendering
> quality?
I've sent you some personally and they're in the bzr branch too under
samples.
> Now, we need to figure out how to shi
Hey Mark,
I presume its just Martin's script is needed.
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On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:30 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 05/09/10 06:07, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Well you know how gullible I am for making things for free ;-), here you
> > go your feature request has been granted:
> >
> >
On 05/09/10 06:07, Martin Owens wrote:
> 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/
That rocks very hard indeed!
Can you send me some sample SVG's so I can get a fee
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 13:48 +, bae...@gmail.com wrote:
> The solution to the load time may be compression but I don't know how
> that affects your proposal.
The load time isn't file size, it's rendering time.
Martin,
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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
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,
But those constellations will, indeed, look different and appear at
different times depending on where in the world you live.
Good idea though. I'd be in favor of it. I always liked those wallpapers
that show hourly views of the globe, including clouds and light.
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:25 AM, F
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 09:25, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
> 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
On 03/09/10 21:44, Diego Moya wrote:
> One word of warning - if this feature finally gets included in
> Ubuntu, please make sure that the orange highlights are always kept
> subtle and never run out of control.
>
> In Owens' demo the generated wallpaper looks great mainly because it
> contains v
Great work!
I really like the idea of the random evolving wallpaper, and your nice hack
proves that the desired effect does work in practice.
One word of warning - if this feature finally gets included in Ubuntu,
please make sure that the orange highlights are always kept subtle and never
run ou
Wow, nice job ;)
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 19:51, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hey Joseph, Mark and Otto,
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:52 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> > Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD,
> > what
> > works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather
Hey Joseph, Mark and Otto,
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:52 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD,
> what
> works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather wide.
Using testing and svg and python hacking I've put together a
demonstratio
Martin hit the nail on the head - the gap between what's on the CD, what
works in practice, and the SVG standard, is rather wide.
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On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:46 +0100, Joseph Hughes wrote:
> Are there any technical issues I haven't considered? Performance?
> Compatibility? You could of course use a static .jpg as a fallback.
The svg specification is big... really big.
Inkscape, which is used to make most SVG files, supports _s
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