I got some issues with live wallpapers with Desktop activity manager. Please find my review and observations here.
Thank you for your review. Now we are working out the new version 0.8. It will be a bomb ;-) After release this version we will try to fix problem with Desktop Activity Manager.
Don't count me as offensive but it's really confusing that there is no possibility to somebody find a solution to run live wallpapers natively. I mean as a wallpaper and not trough specific application.
Heck; even hacked iphone is capable to do that. And somewhere I remember reading that Samsung symbian-devices are also able to do that!
Maemo has so far in my opinion been positive surprise in terms of mod-capabilities. You can do anything with this OS and with N900...
and then you can't hack it to use animated wallpapers...
Developers of this 'live wallpaper' app had done terrific job and all props to them. Same goes pretty much with all other guys over Maemo community!
That makes me wonder if there really is no solution to hack N900 to run animated wallpapers or is it just that no one has taken it as a priority. I lean to latter.
that there is no possibility to somebody find a solution to run live wallpapers natively. I mean as a wallpaper and not trough specific application.
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That makes me wonder if there really is no solution to hack N900 to run animated wallpapers or is it just that no one has taken it as a priority. I lean to latter.
huh?
what do you mean natively?
please use english, everything on every machine is an app
and these wallpapers run just like everything else
or do you think the silicon itself actually morphs to the wallpaper without being an application?
be very specific in your request and use pictures if you need to clarify something
I mean wallpapers like on (for example) Nexus One.
You don't have to manually start an application on Nexus One when you want to use 'live wallpaper'.
I don't know for sure but I bet that Nexus One don't require much processing power to run live wallpapers. Someone more familiar with this may confirm that. And as I understood this app for N900 discussed in this thread consumes pretty much resources...
Hope I made my point clear?
BTW:
Wouldn't it be possible to analyse method that Android uses and implement it with some modification to Maemo?
I mean wallpapers like on (for example) Nexus One.
You don't have to manually start an application on Nexus One when you want to use 'live wallpaper'.
I don't know for sure but I bet that Nexus One don't require much processing power to run live wallpapers. Someone more familiar with this may confirm that. And as I understood this app for N900 discussed in this thread consumes pretty much resources...
Hope I made my point clear?
BTW:
Wouldn't it be possible to analyse method that Android uses and implement it with some modification to Maemo?
You don't need to run Live Wallpapers every time. Just set your backgrounds once and you're done.
Talking about processing power - each wallpaper eats its own ammount. Videos are pretty heavy, Matrix is quite light.
