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Which animation frame to set as wallpaper?

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Neil

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Sep 14, 2009, 4:13:20 AM9/14/09
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In bug 435296 (decode-on-draw) :bholley changed the behaviour of the
Windows version of Set As Wallpaper (I don't know whether the other
platforms support Set As Wallpaper) slightly to save the first frame of
the animation instead of the current frame, which is what the behaviour
used to be and is also the behaviour used by Copy Image on all
platforms. Quoting from comment #8 of bug 516195, "I figured that it was
better to have more predictable behaviour in the case of animated images
... I'm not particularly attached to either one ... (maybe also ask some
UX folks what they think)." My preference would be to keep using the
current frame, but as requested, I'm asking!

So, what do you think?

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Gervase Markham

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Sep 14, 2009, 8:14:31 AM9/14/09
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On 14/09/09 09:13, Neil wrote:
> So, what do you think?

I think Copy Image and Set As Wallpaper should be consistent. I also
think that the Principle of Least Surprise says that the image used
should be the image the user is currently seeing.

If they select this from a context menu, and the animation is continuing
under the menu, then of course it's a bit more complicated to know quite
what the user expects to happen :-)

Gerv

Mike Beltzner

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Sep 14, 2009, 10:52:37 AM9/14/09
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On 2009-09-14, at 8:14 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:

> On 14/09/09 09:13, Neil wrote:
>> So, what do you think?
>
> I think Copy Image and Set As Wallpaper should be consistent. I also
> think that the Principle of Least Surprise says that the image used
> should be the image the user is currently seeing.

I agree with both of these statements.

cheers,
mike

Justin Dolske

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Sep 14, 2009, 4:20:37 PM9/14/09
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On 9/14/09 1:13 AM, Neil wrote:
> In bug 435296 (decode-on-draw) :bholley changed the behaviour of the
> Windows version of Set As Wallpaper (I don't know whether the other
> platforms support Set As Wallpaper) slightly to save the first frame of
> the animation instead of the current frame

Is this even useful for animations? Why not just disable Set As
Wallpaper for animated images? (And while I'm thinking of it, disable
the menuitem for images less than, say, 1/5 the screen size.)

The difference between using the first or current frame only seems
useful in a few cases (very slow frame rate, or non-looping animations
that have ended), so it seems like we're already into faily territory.

Justin

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