Sneak Peek: Natural Desktop...
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
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Ande
Reply #42 Thursday, September 9, 2004 6:03 PM
Reply #42 Thursday, September 9, 2004 6:03 PM
Don't worry got it. Ok now I have a winter landscape can I change the wallpaper ?
NightTrainthedark
Reply #43 Thursday, September 9, 2004 6:19 PM
Reply #43 Thursday, September 9, 2004 6:19 PM
No sound and the wallpapers dont change. 
Someone help please. XP sp2, At first the wallpaper did not change, then I was able to get it working by setting it in display properties just like any ordinary wall. But it stays the summer evening wall no matter what I do. Help please.
Someone help please. XP sp2, At first the wallpaper did not change, then I was able to get it working by setting it in display properties just like any ordinary wall. But it stays the summer evening wall no matter what I do. Help please.
werewolf
Reply #44 Thursday, September 9, 2004 7:12 PM
Reply #44 Thursday, September 9, 2004 7:12 PM
Just got it. Will have to leave it running awhile to watch the backgrounds change.
This doesn't work with AstonShell. I don't see any way to get it to hook into the wallpaper which is being displayed. If any of you alternate shell users know how to get around that, I'd appreciate your suggestions.
The sound track is pleasant enough, but when it 'recycles' there's a gap in the sound. I'd like to see that fixed.
It would be nice if the weather thingy in the corner could be moved or even given a 'windowshade' mode if we didn't want to watch the weather bubble.
This is pretty cool. Great idea and totally worth the price.
Thanks,
David
This doesn't work with AstonShell. I don't see any way to get it to hook into the wallpaper which is being displayed. If any of you alternate shell users know how to get around that, I'd appreciate your suggestions.
The sound track is pleasant enough, but when it 'recycles' there's a gap in the sound. I'd like to see that fixed.
It would be nice if the weather thingy in the corner could be moved or even given a 'windowshade' mode if we didn't want to watch the weather bubble.
This is pretty cool. Great idea and totally worth the price.
Thanks,
David
Ande
Reply #45 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:17 PM
Reply #45 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:17 PM
No music, one picture and the birds are twittering in Antarctica 
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werewolf
Reply #46 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:20 PM
Reply #46 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:20 PM
Does anyone else have a 30-40% cpu load with this loaded?
Frogboy
Reply #47 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:57 PM
Reply #47 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:57 PM
werewolf: The only way that could happen is if your video card's alpha transparency feature is disabled.
There's probabably an easy way to fix that but the way I did it on my laptop was to load up WindowFX which informed me of this and offered to enable that feature in the driver. Once I did that, rebooted, te CPU was at around 4% (mostly from the sound track which uses windows media player).
Also, if you click on the colored area on the dohickey thing, you can change the animation speed.
GAIAStevef
Reply #48 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:58 PM
Yes, but only on my laptop oddly enough... it seems to hover around 50-65%, even after I shut down most other system tray processes.
My desktop on the other hand rarely uses more than 3-4%. I wonder if it could be the crappy Radeon Mobility graphics chipset in the laptop? (it a Compaq Evo N610c)
Reply #48 Thursday, September 9, 2004 8:58 PM
| Does anyone else have a 30-40% cpu load with this loaded? |
Yes, but only on my laptop oddly enough... it seems to hover around 50-65%, even after I shut down most other system tray processes.
My desktop on the other hand rarely uses more than 3-4%. I wonder if it could be the crappy Radeon Mobility graphics chipset in the laptop? (it a Compaq Evo N610c)
GAIAStevef
Reply #49 Thursday, September 9, 2004 9:02 PM
Reply #49 Thursday, September 9, 2004 9:02 PM
Well, I went ahead and ordered it, and I must say I think I was expecting a bit more from what was advertised... I'd like to see somthing like an animated desktop or wallpaper (somthing like the "Living" series desktops maybe)... I'll post more thoughts as I spend more time playing with it.
I do find it a bit odd that while I'm in Wisconsin, and it's set for my correct location & hemisphere, my desktop is a tropical rain-forest, complete with palm trees... (I'd rather be there and looking at a desktop wallpaper of Wisconsin)
I do find it a bit odd that while I'm in Wisconsin, and it's set for my correct location & hemisphere, my desktop is a tropical rain-forest, complete with palm trees... (I'd rather be there and looking at a desktop wallpaper of Wisconsin)
GhoS
Reply #50 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:21 PM
Reply #50 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:21 PM
I'm hoping there will be a video on its way to help showcase it more as of course screenshots don't do it justice. Definitely something I might consider using.
Tiggz
Reply #52 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:52 PM
Reply #52 Thursday, September 9, 2004 10:52 PM
It will of course depend on what type of weather is being shown in the little window - but regardless, when the postal is covered up by a window, cpu useage should be at a minimum, with only the audio impacting on it to any degree.
Chris TH
Reply #53 Thursday, September 9, 2004 11:18 PM
Sorry, I've been out of internet range for a while.
You have mail
Reply #53 Thursday, September 9, 2004 11:18 PM
| #35 by JourneyMan _Martin_ - 9/9/2004 6:26:40 AM I'm looking at updates now Chris.I've never experienced issues with walls not changing in testing. Are you using XP? Are you using any wallpaper changing apps? Please mail me directly to continue this |
Sorry, I've been out of internet range for a while.
You have mail
GAIAStevef
Reply #55 Friday, September 10, 2004 8:26 AM
Reply #55 Friday, September 10, 2004 8:26 AM
One more observation, it doesn't work through a proxy/firewall configuration... Here at my office, we use a proxy server configuration like "proxyserver.company.com", which will then prompt you for login & PW on trying to access outside the local WAN, but I've yet to see a DX object or widget that's "proxy aware", or even have a place to config a "username:[email protected]:port" type of setting.
One of the main attractions in purchasing this was to use on my office system, but it's completely useless with no network connection.
One of the main attractions in purchasing this was to use on my office system, but it's completely useless with no network connection.
joetheblow
Reply #56 Friday, September 10, 2004 11:34 AM
Reply #56 Friday, September 10, 2004 11:34 AM
Hey, just for the record, I want to know if I bought this for someone, do they have to also download the free version of DX???
mrtee
Reply #57 Friday, September 10, 2004 1:50 PM
Reply #57 Friday, September 10, 2004 1:50 PM
Sent e-mail to Martin.
How and where does ND get installed so that it starts on a reboot? Right now on my machine it is in a temp folder in documents and settings and doesn't start on a rebbot, I have to "reinstall" and it goes to a new temp folder.
Other than that ND looks fine.
Jeff
How and where does ND get installed so that it starts on a reboot? Right now on my machine it is in a temp folder in documents and settings and doesn't start on a rebbot, I have to "reinstall" and it goes to a new temp folder.
Other than that ND looks fine.
Jeff
Septimus
Reply #58 Friday, September 10, 2004 1:56 PM
Reply #58 Friday, September 10, 2004 1:56 PM
Well, bought it, so I hope it works properly. Fingers crossed.
Wow, I'm impressed. Only 1% CPU.
As with everyone else, not sure about the wall. But otherwise, very nice. I hope it's development continues apace
Also, how would it react to being imported into DX2? A good idea or not?
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Wow, I'm impressed. Only 1% CPU.
As with everyone else, not sure about the wall. But otherwise, very nice. I hope it's development continues apace
Also, how would it react to being imported into DX2? A good idea or not?
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mrtee
Reply #59 Friday, September 10, 2004 2:14 PM
Reply #59 Friday, September 10, 2004 2:14 PM
I found "autorun" (right click on portal color) so that is working now.
Jeff
Jeff
mrtee
Reply #60 Friday, September 10, 2004 2:20 PM
Reply #60 Friday, September 10, 2004 2:20 PM
Spoke too soon, now left or right click on the portal does nothing and the sounds just stopped. I hate the sound of silence, but I do like the record. I really don't want to have to reinstall ND for every use!
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Reply #41 Thursday, September 9, 2004 5:34 PM