Re: [APP IDEA] Desktop Background Scripting
Re: [APP IDEA] Desktop Background Scripting
- Subject: Re: [APP IDEA] Desktop Background Scripting
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:17:24 +0100
At 23:19 Uhr -0500 24.01.2004, Nebagakid wrote:
The App would be a way to script the background picture to show
information:
That would be pretty easy. Just create a transparent, borderless
overlay window and set its layer to be the desktop icons layer. Then
move it to the back of its layer, which will be in front of the
desktop picture, but behind the Finder's desktop icons. Then just
draw whatever info you want onto that overlay window.
3. Maybe change the desktop picture (or color) depending on the time of
day.
4. Download images from a gallery and show them on the desktop.
This would require a different method. You'd have to put an opaque
but borderless window in the desktop window layer and make it the
frontmost one, so it covers the actual desktop picture but still is
behind the icons.
It is sort of like Konfabulator for just the Desktop Background. It is
easier, though, because there would be no need to design a GUI. Maybe
it could use CSS and XML to arrange stuff? I am not a programmer, but I
am an idea person, and I would love to see this idea come to life.
I vaguely remember having seen a Konfabulator-like tool already.I
think there was a link to it somewhere at iconfactory.com, but I
can't seem to find it offhand.
Not sure I'd do this using CSS, though. I'd rather let my users
position the stuff where they want it. Me personally, I'm very
annoyed when things on the desktop aren't where I want them (which,
with the Finder's habit to "alphabetically randomize" every icon in a
window whenever one of them changes, is pretty much always on X).
Is anyone else interested in this? I would like to get this made :)
Well, then get going! Write it! IIRC, you can do this stuff with
pretty much any language. Heck, you could probably write that critter
in REALbasic...
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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