Cairo and SVG

#1

I was wondering is svg animatable and is there any programs that lets you export this animation. ( like Flash). The reason I ask is because inspired by the sony vaio I saw at compusa, I saw that they were runniing flash on the desktop and you could drag icons and stuff right on top of it. But I digress I want to do something similar to that in say gnome with the cairo library. I want to know if this is possible and how would I go about doing this in linux. Any help would be appreciated. This is more of a special interest, noyt something critical but i think if i cam pull it off and gnome and kde don’t have this type of support I might just have to start might next project by starting from scratch with a whole new set of widgets. Imagine a desktop that moves and acts like all those cool flash animations you see. Except its free and fast ( it would use the cairo library so it will use hardware rendering and stuff).

Anyways I would like to start by customizing current desktop technology to see if this is viable or even practical.

#2

By the way you guys might be syaing why not post this in say a linux a forum since this does’nt seem to be programming related. But in fact what I am asking for is how do I go about creating an svg desktop ( programming one if neccessary) or just extending an existing desktop by writing some sort of application like gdesklets ( gnome) or superKaramba (KDE).

I really think I’m on to soemthing and I would like to create a totally svg desktop environment with animations like in flash. Also it would be totally configurable since it uses XML so window forms and all that goodness would definately be there.

#3

People are already making Cairo/SVG driven desktops.

http://www.waimea.org/wiki/Software_2fwaimea

#4

for real?Damn…

#5

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