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Oh hi HN, creator of ScreenPlay here :) I'm currently working on adding wallpaper timeline support, that lets you set wallpaper based on start and end time. Also, I have been working Godot 4.3 wallpaper support. I hope I will find the time and release the 1.0 update this year!



Nice project, I'm keeping an eye on this! Could you comment about its resource/power consumption? It's especially helpful to know for laptop users.

Small thing - the homepage has a link to https://kelteseth.gitlab.io/ScreenPlayDocs/Wallpaper/ but that just 404's.


Hey there - As a suggestion, cause it took me like 10mins now to find it, the alternative downloads link... Shouldn't it point to "https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay/-/releases" instead of your pipelines? That path requires a gitlab account, and I still couldn't find the download link even after registering.


Also, the latest release is nearly a year old. Is this correct? There have been quite a few commits since then. However, the pipeline seems to be broken and no longer(?) produces binaries.


Looks really interesting! Video wallpapers were actually a feature in Windows past [0]. I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallpaper too which I enjoyed playing with, so I'll definitely give this a go

Just a heads up, a handful of your Read More links on the homepage are broken

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_DreamScene?useskin=vec...


> I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallpaper too

Active Desktop was originally introduced for Windows 95: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop


I don’t remember if Mac had HTML but I used to set one of the quartz screensavers as my desktop back in the day. I can’t find links to how to do it right now so can’t test if it still works. It could only be set using a command line so it wasn’t exactly mainstream. I found “Flurry” to have decently low battery and CPU usage but many would chew through one or the other quickly.


I remember in KDE (3? 3.5?) you could embed HTML as your wallpaper. That was interesting.


That feature goes back way longer.

Internet Explorer 4 (Windows) with Active Desktop was the first time I’ve encountered HTML as a wallpaper. The performance was terrible on most computers of that time but you have to bear in mind we were talking about a few hundred megs of RAM being “high end”.


Interesting, I wasn't trying to claim KDE's was older, just making an aside, that I thought it was interesting, I forgot Windows did the same too.

I still remember during the XP era where I thought 40GB was revolutionary after suffering a Millenium Me 500MB hdd computer...


It’s funny how it doesn’t matter how much resources you have, there’s always a way to fill it.


I stumbled upon your website because of your BlueSky follow. ;)


Since you are using the Steam platform, I think there is a lot of potential for game devs, or users of games, to create themed live wallpaper.


FYI: Under the Features section of the homepage, the first two "Read More..." links are broken (Wallpapers and Widgets)




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