Ex-Microsoft Designer Reveals Windows 11's Dynamic Wallpapers That May Have Been Shelved (windowscentral.com) 16
Former Microsoft designer Sergey Kisselev has shared previously unseen concepts for Windows 11 dynamic wallpapers, intended for educational devices. The animated backgrounds were designed to complement Windows 11's centered interface but never shipped with the operating system's 23H2 update as initially planned.
Slashdot Editors: Close your "bold" tag! (Score:2)
Everything on the front page is bolded right now...
What a waste of power (Score:3)
While I like animated shaders (see shadertoy) and old school demos and intros...
The desktop background should be trying to be minimal in all respects, or else the machine is never allowed to be minimal.
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This sums up every version of Windows starting with 8.
And the worst thing is they have so much money to burn they can keep coming up with more pointless shit than you have years left to live.
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The desktop background should be trying to be minimal in all respects, or else the machine is never allowed to be minimal.
Also: a changing background is a distraction and will thus make it harder to do productive work.
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There's no way Microsoft would waste power. After all, Windows 11 has a mandatory "Efficiency Mode" to make Chrome (and only Chrome) extremely slow and therefore "save power".
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Not just the background, but the whole desktop should be minimal.
I use fluxbox without the usual taskbar and everything. There's only a digital clock and the application menu pops up with a key combination. I even disabled the whole window decoration so all I see is whatever programs I have open.
It's so relaxed, I feel shivers just thinking about looking at Windows or a Mac. I'm also glad to use Olauncher on the phone for that reason.
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My Linux desktop runs a shader full time at 60 FPS compositing my desktop, even gives me wobbly windows. Doesn't seem to cost a whole lot.
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"Dynamic Wallpaper" == A shader running full time at max FPS. While I like animated shaders (see shadertoy) and old school demos and intros... ...we are talking about the desktop background, not a screensaver.
The desktop background should be trying to be minimal in all respects, or else the machine is never allowed to be minimal.
Windows 11, by default, replaces the background several times a week. I wonder how much bandwidth is being wasted doing this to millions of machines every day? I switch to a plain background on my systems, but about twice a week it resets the background color to something else, usually black.
Remember when Microsoft was fantasizing about forever updating desktop backgrounds, updated through push? And they offered it as an opt-in for those who wanted it? As per usual, they eventually got tired of users not op
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I keep having to reset my wallpaper on upgrades (Score:2)
Every time a major new version drops, it seems to want to put my desktop image to that damn windows spotlight... I generally like to set it to a nice dark gray.
I can't imagine anything more annoying than "animated wallpaper" eek
Deskop nah, VR maybe (Score:2)
I could see this being useful for VR, like if you were using apps in VR against with beach theme or something like that where there's subtle movement .. and maybe something less subtle happening in the environment for notifications (based on urgency or importance).