animated backgrounds

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:23 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> I put together an xml file for the animation based on the format for
> gnome-desktop-2.19.90-4:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/00-fedora-infinity-background.xml

Nice. But I think you want a) the starttime to be midnight and b) the
durations of the static images to be 2700 and the transitions to be 900,
so that it actually sums up to 24 hours.
 
> I did each one using gradients and layer blending modes in the Gimp over 
> top of the main background image. The source is here (warning: it's 
> quite large):
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/00-background.xcf
> 

Unfortunately, there is very noticeable banding in the images.