Bug 149863

Summary:	Animated wallpaper in plasma
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	David <DavidLBarbour>
Component:	containment-desktop	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aaronforjesus, asraniel, slaout
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description David 2007-09-14 18:44:01 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

This should be supported, because mild and slow animations are very nice for a background (like XMB menu on PS3 or windows vista aurora screensaver).

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2007-10-19 05:54:40 UTC

backgrounds are drawn via plugins, so this is fully possible pending someone writing the plugin to do so ;)

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2007-10-19 05:55:26 UTC

*** Bug 149948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 David 2007-12-05 14:34:14 UTC

Bug 149948 isn't a duplicate of this bug. He says moving applets should trigger an animation. I say the background/wallpaper should be animated. Has anyone seen the background wave of the XMB menu on the PS3? That's what I mean.

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2007-12-05 15:46:41 UTC

"a wishlist for an animated background that looketh like a pond."

seriously, close enough.

Comment 5 Vladislav Blanton 2007-12-26 05:03:57 UTC

mac os x also has a similar effect when adding new applets, when the applet is dropped on to the screen, waves spread and the applet bounces as if it was a buoyant object on water.

Comment 6 Bernhard Friedreich 2008-11-20 20:29:02 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 7 FiNeX 2008-12-08 19:05:37 UTC

*** Bug 63197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Beat Wolf 2009-09-03 19:56:36 UTC

So, what is this wishlist about? plasma can have animated wallpapers and there are a few. perhaps not the exact one you want, but yeah.. so i close this one, if you want a specific animated wallpaper you can create a mockup and a detailed description and open a new wishlist.

Comment 9 Aaron Johnson 2009-09-09 19:28:28 UTC

Sorry about the confusion. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149948 was about an interactive background, not an animated background (which is easy to do). Imagine a Plasma widget on the desktop. Now imagine that there are waves spreading out from the widget, like a small island or large rock in a pond. Move the widget, and it produces a wake like a boat going through the water. Drop the widget on a different location on the background, and the wave will move with it. An other idea would be to left-click on the desktop, and ye can create waves on the background just by moving a mouse. In other words, this is not a simple animated background, but an interactive one.