Collecting cool ideas

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Jalmari
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Collecting cool ideas

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I haven't seen a topic for this here, so I decided to create it.
The idea here is to talk about non-critical features that'd be nice to have in future, after alpha state.
If you get a good idea or find something intresting from somewhere, please post it here.

Here's my crappy example:
Animated wallpapers.
Rendering some 2d things won't eat much of the power of a modern PC.
Could work similiar way as screensavers.

It could look something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSje_VGqBRo
http://i.imgur.com/zmAxRJE.png
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What you're asking for is called Active Desktop.

And, actually, I'd like that too. It's an awesome idea, in concept. I'd love to make a really fancy JavaScript/HTML5 animated web page and set it as my wallpaper.
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I'd call it more like just animated or live wallpaper. From what I remember, active desktop did actually interactive websites as the wallpaper.
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I doubt very much that implement some of these ideas.
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While using a mac I came across a small, but handy feature. When removable media is inserted it gives a shortcut to it in desktop.
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Do you think live paper on window desktop is possible? NOt touch screen but wallpaper can move :D
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It is possible as it is on Windows too (https://store.steampowered.com/app/4319 ... er_Engine/), but it eats your resources for breakfast. Well maybe not yet, but in future when ROS's compatibility increases even more.
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d-d-d-dreamscene, the thing that came with vista and got "hacked" into 7, aka live wallpapers that sorta but not really fuck with resources
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/ Get this running and we have dreamscene ^^
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