Built-in Live Wallpaper integration - feature request

[Wise Melon]

I think that it would be really good if there was some sort of built-in GNOME feature which would allow you to set a live wallpaper without having to install a third-party application.

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

gnome-control-center is not a 3rd party application.

However you should be able to right click on a file and select "select as background", if you don't want to use that.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

I am not saying that gnome-control-center is a third-party application, I was merely suggesting the functionality in that.

I do not mean the normal sort of wallpaper image, I was meaning the interactive (usually) animated type. Because to currently get that type of wallpaper known as 'live wallpaper' you have to get a third-party application, and I believe that an already built-in functionality to achieve this would be better.

There is an article here on live wallpaper, however it requires you, like the others, to get a third-party application located in an unsupported and untrusted PPA: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/live-wallpaper-for-ubuntu

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

There is native support for animated wallpapers (Which that tool seems not to use), however there are no tools to automate the generation of the xml files that describe these animations

This is not something we would likely implement, and should raised upstream on the GNOME bugtracker. Link to the bug here if you file that!

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, I have filled a bug report on this issue upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755304