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GNOME Screensaver slideshows

William Jon McCann, gnome-screensaver maintainer, has added a new theme that provides a slideshow of images. To provide a good set of defaults, we are going to add a few default slideshows (Cosmos, Forest, and Beach). For cosmos, we have been getting images from NASA, which, AFAIK, are in the public domain and available for use (please correct me someone if that’s not true). For forest and beach slideshows, we need pictures, so this is a CFP (Call For Pictures) from people about forests and beaches.

We have decided on a small condition for each one:

  • For beach pictures, they should be very relaxing.
  • For forest pictures, they should be somewhat mysterious.

So, if you have good photos with these requirements, and provided the photos are yours and you really want to donate them for the GNOME cause to be included in gnome-screensaver, please add a comment here with a link to the picture.

Also, it would be really nice to have some cairo/glitz expert to help in improving the code for the slideshow theme, optimizing and animating (pan and zoom) the slideshow. The code is in gnome-screensaver CVS module.

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44 Responses to “GNOME Screensaver slideshows”

  1. Rodrigo Moya Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:23 am

    I’ll add a few ones for forests:
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/norway/oslo/im001412.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/biescas/pict1150.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/biescas/pict1152.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/biescas/pict1153.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/biescas/pict1159.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/formigal/im001255.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/moncayo/im001297.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/navarra/im000312.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/navarra/im000313.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/navarra/im001148.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/navarra/pict1069.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/places/spain/peralta/im000450.jpg

    Just to open the competition :)

  2. Luis Villa Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:24 am

    This is great! GL-slideshow runs on all my machines; I’ll switch them all to gnome-screensaver as quickly as I can rebuild :)

    http://tieguy.org/pics/Australia2005/dsc01606 is my suggestion for forests; I’m looking for a good beach picture, but can’t seem to find any that are relaxing :)

  3. Tim Gerla Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:27 am

    Forest:

    http://gerla.net/photos/raven_rock/img_3672m.jpg.html
    http://gerla.net/photos/raven_rock/img_3693m.jpg.html
    http://gerla.net/photos/buildings/img_2948.jpg.html
    http://gerla.net/photos/jordan_lake/img_0651.jpg.html

    Ocean:

    http://flickr.com/photos/tgerla/30080921/
    http://flickr.com/photos/tgerla/30089839/
    http://gerla.net/photos/ocracoke2004/pict2881.jpg.html

  4. G Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:36 am

    did you check in wikipedia? AFAIK almost all of their images are public domain or GFDL

  5. Tarmo Tänav Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:36 am

    Not sure if any those satisfy the “relaxing” condition, but here goes, some pictures made in egypt:

    http://tarmo.itech.ee/img_2561.jpg
    http://tarmo.itech.ee/img_2562.jpg
    http://tarmo.itech.ee/img_2567.jpg
    http://tarmo.itech.ee/img_2593.jpg
    http://tarmo.itech.ee/img_2674.jpg

  6. Luis Villa Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:42 am

    http://tieguy.org/pics/album02/img_22 (forest, but in fall, so might not fit in with a ‘green’ forest theme)

    Still can’t find decent beach pics… I think maybe my ‘growing up in miami’ means I think beaches are boring and so I haven’t taken any decent pictures :)

    Also, the HEAD code doesn’t seem to work for me- I hardcoded my pictures directory but it doesn’t seem to find any of the pictures in it. Realistically, BTW, this will probably need to be a gconf setting- too many people picking too many different places, you can maybe guess at a few and pop up a question if it isn’t in one of the guessed places, but that’ll still only catcha small number- and I guess it’ll have a lot of false positives too. :/

  7. Rodrigo Moya Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 2:48 am

    A few more:
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/travels/GVADEC-2004/im001437.jpg
    http://rodrigo.gnome-db.org/photos/travels/GVADEC-2004/im001442.jpg

  8. Joaquin Cuenca Abela Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:03 am

    Hi Rodrigo,

    Here you have two pictures made by my wife in Algeria :

    http://www.panoramio.com/photos/208.jpg
    http://www.panoramio.com/photos/209.jpg

    All the photos available in http://www.panoramio.com/ in Algeria are from my wife, so you can take anyone you like.

    I hope to see you at the next Guadec!
    Bye!

  9. Fred Smith Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:24 am

    Here are some beach photos:
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-02-snorkel_hike_at_lamichire_bay&snimek=31
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=19
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=6
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=7
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=15
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=12
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=11
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=44
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-03-annaberg_sugar_plantation&snimek=46
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-03-02-snorkel_hike_at_lamichire_bay&snimek=70
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-02-27&snimek=3
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-02-27&snimek=12
    http://gallery.fredsmith.us/index.php?galerie=maho-2005-02-27&snimek=14

    All the photos on http://gallery.fredsmith.us/ are CC licensed by-sharealike, but can be relicensed under something more liberal upon request.

  10. Henri Bergius Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:28 am

    If you make the screensaver to support fetching image lists via Pheed RSS feeds, it would be very easy to modify the photo listings and to subscribe third-party feeds.

    http://www.pheed.com/pheed/

    For example, Midgard CMS supports pheed by default for all image galleries so you can subscribe feeds like
    http://www.routamc.org/gallery/black-sea-2004/rss.xml and
    http://www.mik.fi/gallery/taustakuvat/1024×768-pikselia/rss.xml

  11. Stefan Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:29 am

    http://www.chromosomnia.org/pubfiles/finland_midsummer.jpg
    http://www.chromosomnia.org/pubfiles/sunset.jpg

  12. Scott Bronson Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:35 am

    Beach:
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/warmth/img_1270
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/scen2/IMG_0401
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/warmth/img_1266
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/warmth/img_1256
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/scen2/IMG_0404
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/scen1/IMG_0048

    Beach & Forest:
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/scen2/IMG_0400

    Forest:
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/tioga1/IMG_0545
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/tioga1/IMG_0590
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/dana/IMG_0683
    http://www.rinspin.com/apps/gallery/bronson/warmth/img_1276

  13. Ross Burton Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:37 am

    Beach:

    http://www.burtonini.com/photos/Kefalonia/assos-coast.jpg
    http://www.burtonini.com/photos/Kefalonia/myrtos.jpg
    http://www.burtonini.com/photos/2004-LakeGarda/abstract-waves.jpg

    Forest:

    http://www.burtonini.com/photos/2004-LakeGarda/tree.jpg
    http://www.burtonini.com/photos/200502-MiniBlizzard/img_0745.jpg

  14. Johan Brannlund Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:53 am

    These are all pictures I’ve taken, please take a look at them and see if you’d like to include any of them. Right now they’re not licensed under anything in particular but that can be arranged if necessary.

    Forest picture:

    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/22_G

    Beach/ocean pictures:
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/100_0016
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/7_G
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/6_G_001
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/8_G_001
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/15_G_001
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/1_G_002
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/6_G_002
    http://nullinfinity.org/gallery/2005/00002_G_001

  15. Andrea Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:53 am

    Hi Rodrigo,

    >
    >
    some pictures for gnome-screensaver

    Beach
    >
    Sunset 2
    Sunset 3
    Sunset 4
    Sunset 5

    >
    >
    Forest
    >
    Forest 2

    You can use them, if you like and yes, the ’server’ is soo slow…

  16. Andrea Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:57 am

    oh oh, what happened to my comment?

    Sorry.

  17. Christine Spang Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 3:58 am

    Forest:
    http://frisia.middle-earth.us/images/gnome/forest1.jpg
    http://frisia.middle-earth.us/images/gnome/forest2.jpg

    Beach-ish:
    http://frisia.middle-earth.us/images/gnome/beach1.jpg
    http://frisia.middle-earth.us/images/gnome/beach2.jpg
    http://frisia.middle-earth.us/images/gnome/beach3.jpg

  18. Cameron Blunt Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 4:02 am

    A couple of the oregon beach

    http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/216/d/e/Personal_Beach_by_ultra_violence.jpg
    http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/216/e/b/I_love_the_beaches_by_ultra_violence.jpg

    deviant art is the only way I have to host them please contact me if they don’t work.

  19. Alessandro GIusti Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 4:45 am

    Here is a beach photo I took that like a lot: I can release it to the Public Domain.
    It is from Sardinia.
    http://www.leet.it/home/lale/cmsimple/?download=Beach.JPG

  20. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 4:57 am

    I have this in 7.2MP it’s called Forest Tale:

    http://georgi.unixsol.org/mypics/gorska-prikazka.html

    You did not mention what licence is acceptible but since this picture is mine I can relicence it anyway you like.

  21. Lee Willis Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 5:04 am

    Few pictures that may, or may not fit the bill …

    A mixture of US & UK forests :)

    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida069.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida159.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida160.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida189.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida412.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida415.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/Florida416.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/LangsettReservoir14.11.2004.002.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/LangsettReservoir14.11.2004.004.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/LangsettReservoir14.11.2004.005.jpg
    http://www.leewillis.co.uk/ssave/LangsettReservoir14.11.2004.006.jpg

    Free to use any of these if you want them!

  22. Dan Young Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 5:15 am

    Forest:
    http://dan.parkrose.k12.or.us/albums/Ottawa/DSC_0031.jpg
    http://dan.parkrose.k12.or.us/albums/Ottawa/DSC_0038_001.jpg
    http://dan.parkrose.k12.or.us/albums/Ottawa/DSC_0033.sized.jpg

    Beach:
    http://dan.parkrose.k12.or.us/albums/OlympicNatlForest/DSC_0063.jpg

  23. Stephen Fromm Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 5:24 am

    The following is a candidate for the forest category.

    http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~stephenf/pix/2004-07-03-2227.jpg

    I’ll also dig through my archives at home.

  24. Dieter Verfaillie Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 5:58 am

    Forest:
    http://www.optionexplicit.be/tmp/dsc00001
    http://www.optionexplicit.be/tmp/dsc00002

  25. Fish Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 7:08 am

    These are three foresty and (according to taste) mysterious-ish ones:

    http://dharma.snowpetrel.net/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=17
    http://dharma.snowpetrel.net/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=18
    http://dharma.snowpetrel.net/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=24

  26. Federico Mena-Quintero Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 7:48 am

    http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-photos/2004-10-2230-clouds.jpg
    http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/photo/xalapa/2004-02-1141-flower.jpg
    http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/photo/xalapa/2004-02-1083-fog.jpg
    http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-photos/2004-01-0854-bug.jpg

  27. bookeldor Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 8:01 am

    mushrooms (boletus edulis) for the forest theme (from france)
    http://databob.free.fr/Volume/files/p8173461.jpg

    and a forest photo, with fuzzy light
    http://databob.free.fr/Volume/files/p4241885bis.jpg

  28. Konstantin Ryabitsev Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 8:57 am

    All my pictures are (cc) by-sa (attribution-sharealike), which is pretty close to GNU FDL.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mricon/sets/52425/

  29. Mark Gordon Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 9:45 am

    http://granicus.if.org/~mtgordon/Gallery/forest/
    http://granicus.if.org/~mtgordon/Gallery/beach/

  30. Andrea Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 9:46 am

    Second mistake: sunrise not sunset.

    Ciao

  31. Chris Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 11:35 am

    I’ve put a few online, as linked below.

    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/oahuCoastline.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/hawaiiBeach.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/hanaumaBay.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/beautifulSunset.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/oahuBeach.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/sunsetWithRetsina.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/cedarBeach.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/waikikiBeach.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/keyWestSailboat.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Beach/greekLighthouse.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Forest/branch.jpg
    http://www.chrismurf.com/gnome-ss/Forest/hawaiiMountains.jpg

  32. Chris Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 11:36 am

    Sorry - the above were all taken by me, and I can release them under creative commons (preferred) or just into the public domain if that’s preferred. - chris

  33. Jan Moren Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 11:50 am

    A few forest-type pictures from Japan (cc license can be changed to whatever is needed for inclusion).

  34. Jan Moren Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 11:53 am

    Hm, no links - second try:

    http://photos22.flickr.com/31326621_69a03338b6_b.jpg
    http://photos22.flickr.com/31326622_02ad0bc35e_b.jpg
    http://photos23.flickr.com/31326623_ffa2da9fff_b.jpg

    Full sizes available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/

  35. antrix Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 4:26 pm

    Beach photos:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/antrix/sets/321004/

    You can take anything under CC license there. Larger sizes available on request.

  36. Rodrigo Moya Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 7:50 pm

    Photos from Christian Kellner:

    http://www.gnome.org/~gicmo/photos/

  37. Karl Lattimer Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 8:19 pm

    http://www.caedes.net/

    Really good photo’s but not sure about the licensing. You may want to contact them.

  38. Dominik Schnitzer Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 9:33 pm

    The first one is really mystic :-)

    http://hop.at/mystic-woods.png

    http://hop.at/mystic-woods2.png

    Taken by me 2004 in India Darjeeling - take them if you want them. They’re hereby public domain. Dominik Schnitzer.

  39. ed cabalfin Says:
    August 6th, 2005 at 2:15 am

    Forest:

    http://photos9.flickr.com/16235773_7b5aea2123_o.jpg
    http://photos11.flickr.com/16425856_e3aed47f52_o.jpg
    http://photos22.flickr.com/27711436_5862f6403b_o.jpg

    All my photos are under a Creative Commons License.
    Use them if there is anything you like.
    http://flickr.com/photos/edge714/

  40. Lu Says:
    August 8th, 2005 at 12:27 pm

    http://gusilu.net/~lu/forest/forest01.jpg

    http://gusilu.net/~lu/forest/forest02.jpg

    http://gusilu.net/~lu/forest/forest03.jpg

    http://gusilu.net/~lu/forest/forest04.jpg

    http://gusilu.net/~lu/forest/forest05.jpg

    http://gusilu.net/~lu/forest/forest06.jpg

  41. Christian Bjälevik Says:
    August 9th, 2005 at 3:12 am

    http://www.magicalforest.se/tmp/magical-moreevil.xcf.bz2

    This one is taken by Bartek Kania and will be the frontpage for my new homepage. Fits the mystery requirment just fine ;-).

  42. antonioz Says:
    August 9th, 2005 at 6:51 pm

    And much more: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

  43. thomas Says:
    August 11th, 2005 at 6:56 am

    How’s that for a mysterious forest?
    http://mercen.org/gallery/franche-comte_winter/20041228_dsc_2040

    The GNOME project can use it in any way it sees fit, provided it can find a use for it ;)

  44. Luis Villa Says:
    August 24th, 2005 at 12:22 am

    Couple beach pictures that I finally found:

    http://tieguy.org/pics/Australia2005/dsc01898
    http://tieguy.org/pics/Australia2005/dsc01912
    http://tieguy.org/pics/Australia2005/dsc01921

    All from the Great Ocean Road.

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