Comments on: Desktop Takeover: place images or image “channels” on your desktop

By: Samer

Samer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:14:51 +0000

@BeTech,
Sorry for the late response.
Go to this post, and look somewhere in the comments to find the wallpaper youa re interested in (watching the heavens fall):

http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/11/my-favorite-lone-tree-and-sky-wallpaper-images/

By: BeTech

BeTech — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:56:34 +0000

Interesting software concept.
also, I find the example wallpaper, the bliss-like grass with tree and sky and meteors, interesting.
Do you have a link to that which I could use to get the original wallpaper to use on my computer screen (hopefully in a larger or widescreen size). Thx! Best.

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By: maciejg

maciejg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:25:59 +0000

hello, I appreciate all the comments about this program. To the defense of the high memory footprint, the focus was on performance and quick image switching. This does not make sense to anyone who will use the program to change just the background once every hour, but someone who creates a layout with 3 or 4 photo albums, rotates background from local collection of wallpapers, and has 3 webcams on the background and wants all image update every minute, then they will appreciate the desktop not coming to a screeching halt during updates. Either way, without a doubt this will be addressed in the followup releases. Image transparency was an afterthought, not quite sure what the demand would be, and of course I will look into this for the next release.

bigjohnny, thank you for your suggestions, but the process you describe was precisely why DesktopTakeover was created.

maciejg
developer

By: bigjohnny

bigjohnny — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:04:59 +0000

Most of the functionality that this program provides is already in XP (sadly not Vista) in the form of a feature called Active Desktop. The rotating images or wallpaper could be kludged together in Active Desktop with a Javascript image rotation script.

If you don’t like Active Desktop, (it is a bit of a resource hog) you could use your favorite image editing program and paste your kids pictures over the image that is being used as a Wallpaper. Make a few different ones and change it when you get bored.

By: heart

heart — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:17:18 +0000

I am currently using mediaticker ( http://www.roxio.com/enu/solutions/roxiolabs/products/mediaticker/default.html ) to display my favorite pics, but I will test this, too!
the high memory consumption does not bother me, have enough!
thanks for the suggestion!