Ex-Microsoft Designer Reveals Windows 11's Dynamic Wallpapers That May Have Been Shelved (windowscentral.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/02/2148235/ex-microsoft-designer-reveals-windows-11s-dynamic-wallpapers-that-may-have-been-shelved
- Source link: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-designer-shares-first-look-at-dynamic-wallpaper-plans-for-windows-11-but-have-they-already-been-scrapped
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What a waste of power (Score:3)
"Dynamic Wallpaper" == A shader running full time at max FPS.
While I like animated shaders (see shadertoy) and old school demos and intros...
...we are talking about the desktop background, not a screensaver.
The desktop background should be trying to be minimal in all respects, or else the machine is never allowed to be minimal.
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My OLED screen would beg to differ.
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This sums up every version of Windows starting with 8.
And the worst thing is they have so much money to burn they can keep coming up with more pointless shit than you have years left to live.
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> The desktop background should be trying to be minimal in all respects, or else the machine is never allowed to be minimal.
Also: a changing background is a distraction and will thus make it harder to do productive work.
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There's no way Microsoft would waste power. After all, Windows 11 has a mandatory "Efficiency Mode" to make Chrome (and only Chrome) extremely slow and therefore "save power".
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Not just the background, but the whole desktop should be minimal.
I use fluxbox without the usual taskbar and everything. There's only a digital clock and the application menu pops up with a key combination. I even disabled the whole window decoration so all I see is whatever programs I have open.
It's so relaxed, I feel shivers just thinking about looking at Windows or a Mac. I'm also glad to use Olauncher on the phone for that reason.
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My Linux desktop runs a shader full time at 60 FPS compositing my desktop, even gives me wobbly windows. Doesn't seem to cost a whole lot.
negative to those with visual disabilities or ADHD (Score:2)
More animations, more moving things on screen to make using the computer
- Harder on people with visual disabilities
- Harder on people with ADHD to concentrate
As others have pointed out, all the unneeded visual nonsense, chrome and UI gold-plating animations
- Waste millions of dollars of electricity
- Produce a large amount of pollution via fossil fuel generated electricity
- Raise the cost of electricity for everyone, regressively harming the poorest persons most
And don't video games have a 'may cause seizure
I keep having to reset my wallpaper on upgrades (Score:2)
Every time a major new version drops, it seems to want to put my desktop image to that damn windows spotlight... I generally like to set it to a nice dark gray.
I can't imagine anything more annoying than "animated wallpaper" eek
Slashdot Editors: Close your "bold" tag! (Score:2)
Everything on the front page is bolded right now...