Animated Wallpapers for Plasma
December 11, 2008
It has been some time now that the QEdje’s wallpaper plugin for Plasma is on playground, but just yesterday I had some time to finally write a patch for QZion to enable the correct painting of the animated wallpaper. This patch still needs to go mainline in QZion…
Anyway, for those wanting to see a little demo take a look at the video below:
Cheers! 
UPDATE: here is the QZion’s patch http://dev.openbossa.org/qedje/gitweb?p=qzion.git;a=commit;h=4d7901de03d2ce86ab31fd67b0be7a2fe6de6c21 . So people using qzion/qedje from trunk can use that =)
quite amazing. tho how is the performance of it? i’ve seen windows vista animated backgrounds, and they could play videos in realtime in the background.
@litb: The performance is good. I hope it becomes even better with qt 4.5. I need to do more tests with more objects but it should be easy to play videos in realtime as well. =) With Qt Kinetics it should become even easier to create this kind of wallpapers.
Wow, it’s amazing to play video as wallpaper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4VjdlGf2U&feature=related
I hope it’s posible to do it in KDE 4.3
[...] qualcosa di simile un paio di giorni fa su Jabber… ed ecco che si materializza, questa degli sfondi animati per Plasma è una richiestissima che si avvia a diventare [...]
@wow: it should be easy with the recent features published about qt+phonon
I think about that for the first time when i read this: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/11/28/videos-get-pimped/
But it’s very important to play this video smoothly. Other thing is to load video before desktop will show. I hate any blink, for example it’s disgusting to see desktop without walpapper, icons or some panel’s.
[...] Después de ver los plamoides animados solo nos queda ver el fondo de pantalla animado, y eso es lo que ha hecho Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz). [...]
[...] Visto en | KDE Blog Relacionado | Fondos de pantalla animados para Plasma [...]
Just out of curiousity – what’s in the name qZion?
[...] al lavoro svolto da MoRpHeUz, questa possibilità su KDE4 sta per diventare realtà. Lo sfondo animato si accinge a [...]
You can find some animated wallpapers here: http://www1.get-e.org/Backgrounds/Animated/
@Halim: QZion is the canvas used by QEdje to paint stuff…about the name, not sure why it’s called like that =P
@George: yes! that’s a good site for animated backgrounds!
Still waiting for the patch
@David: here it is: http://dev.openbossa.org/qedje/gitweb?p=qzion.git;a=commit;h=4d7901de03d2ce86ab31fd67b0be7a2fe6de6c21
Cheers!
Does it Just Work ™?
I had to change “background” to “e/desktop/background” in the qedje wallpaper source code and recompile a background to get it to show.
@David: Hey David!
It’s not working out of the box…it was just a test. The fact of having to recompile the background is because the edje files at get-e.org are very old…and as the kdelogo.edj had the group as “background” I just used it there. If you want talk more about this, join #plasma on freenode or free fell to send me an email
Cheers!
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It is possible to play videos as background already, now that there is Qt+Phonon?
@Diego: yes Diego! It’s possible…maybe I’ll try that asap ! =)
Cheers!