We have an option to have day and night mode - and this is an concept idea, that we can celebrate the release perfectly. Would be possible to have a seaport with its Fedora blue colors, and as time passing by we could have a starry sky in night mode? TIA, Zoltan
I know this is kind of random, but since Fedora implemented those Day/Night Live Wallpapers, i wanted to do a Sunrise/Sunset one.
This is Sunrise ( Around 7am in the Fall )
I loved the Blue gradient, was hoping to capture it at sunset but couldn’t. Currently the sunset hue is Orange ( Winter 5:15pm )
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This is cool. Landscapes are good choice. And would be great to have this with night, maybe moonlight, and shadowy.
I was thinking of doing something in Blender, with the lighting. Seeing if I could reproduce it somehow. . . 
I have seen an really interesting concept art, although it’s for winXP - something similar effect would be great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLFUl9MW_Ks - at 7:20. Do we able to do something similar?
That was pretty cool, but would have to think about it a little. Gnome currently has a light /dark mode for the desktop that gives this effect kind of the same hmm. . .
If we combine with glass theme on gnome, some transparency - it would be amazing. Something like that: Glass-Gnome - Gnome-look.org - but maybe its too much. However, still think that would be better some lookout view, or city view that changes in over time. Maybe a crazy idea, but maybe we need a long exponency shot by a camera, over a city - and we only need to just select segments?
Only matter will be the weather, and nice dry 24 hours. But would be awesome effect to have rainy glass, a light sunflare on glass, or cloudy top in the picture as gnome weather changes. But can be too much.
I know, not the best choice, just trying to get inspiration.
Is there a way to get all the old Fedora wallpapers, like an RPM that contains them and their metadata? I think many of them are very cool
I’ve downloaded all the iso’s from F21?! to the present, and gotten them that way, since the rpm for backgrounds didn’t contain some that shipped with the distro in the past.
dnf search backgrounds brings up a lot of them, including the animated ones and the Spins
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I hope you did that wiki page otherwise you did a lot of unneeded efford 
Animated backgrounds? Sounds lit!
When i started that, I don’t recall seeing that wiki page. I just skimmed through it and that F26 Wallpaper hit’s different. F25 shipped with a kernel that couldn’t load Nvidia driver without ( for me at the time ) a not so easy command line fix. I stayed on F24 for a long time, this is the last version I used Grub. Also we didn’t have dnf system-upgrade yet so. . .
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So upgrading was like it is to this day on debian? Update, check pinned apps, update again, change repos, update, …
I think I have found an app that can handle mp4 as background - I have installed Hidamari from flatpack, and I use nice short videos as background. The only question is that how will I insert as part of the desktop - but maybe I will try to feed with conky, then use the --disown command that release the desktop. The only issue that 16gb and my proc can handle in dual monitor stat approx 720p videos, but with a little cheating blur makes an amazing desktop. The constant loaded loop video is 8-15 secs, and looks amazing by Hidamari. IF lightdm would be able to run animations on greetings… anyway, having a small load and a custom desktop with Evolve made me really happy already. But I think that option in Evolve x Hidamari x Conky together we can make something that unique.
Zoltan
I don’t remember the exact steps, I had several machines at the time 1 in particular, I had a systemd-nspawn sets of containers, Debian, Arch AUR Package builder, and a couple Development containers for Python and other languages. So it was easier for me to just back up, nuke and pave. There used to be a tool call fedup , then of course you could just “fresh install” with dnf upgrade --releasever=Xx… All with mixed results.
What was frustrating was that Wallpapers were never retained during the early days of dnf system-upgrade so it was frustrating losing configs and wallpaper.
I’m eager, or more so looking forward to learning OpenGL and OpenCL. I want to develop a small renderer, but also a tool that can properly render animated backgrounds. I have other ideas for it and possibly related use cases, but that’s gonna be a while.
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