[Kstars-devel] kstars as a desktop

[Jason Harris]

Hi Brian,

Do you mean like this?  http://www.30doradus.org/desktop_july04.png

That's KStars running as a dynamic wallpaper, which can already be done using 
the "--dump" option on the command line, and adding kstars to the Advanced 
wallpaper section of KConfig.

However, from your mail, I guess you want to do something more than just have 
a non-interactive image as the wallpaper.  You're thinking of being able to 
"attach" icons on the desktop to the spherical projection of the sky, right?  
It could be interesting, but it doesn't really have much to do with KStars.  
With KDE-4.x, one could pretty easily write a desktop applet script that 
attached icons to a spherical coordinate system.  

It's possible that I don't yet understand what you're asking about, can you 
elaborate a bit?

regards,
Jason

On Sunday 28 May 2006 19:31, brian hurren wrote:
> Has anyone thought of turning Kstars into a desktop. the idea of having all
> my files projected onto the inside of a stary sphear is an intreguing one.
> I think that it would be highly efective as a thee d desktop and quite
> simple and elegent. Kstars is already a very good database for astronomy
> and it is a simple and elegant way of graphicaly representing data in this
> case astronomical data, if it was extended to be a desk top then it could
> also desplay other data... what do you think?
>
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