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.
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 🙂
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 🙂
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
did you check in wikipedia? AFAIK almost all of their images are public domain or GFDL
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
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. :/
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
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!
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.
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
http://www.chromosomnia.org/pubfiles/finland_midsummer.jpg
http://www.chromosomnia.org/pubfiles/sunset.jpg
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
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
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
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…
oh oh, what happened to my comment?
Sorry.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
Forest:
http://www.optionexplicit.be/tmp/dsc00001
http://www.optionexplicit.be/tmp/dsc00002
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
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
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
All my pictures are (cc) by-sa (attribution-sharealike), which is pretty close to GNU FDL.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mricon/sets/52425/
http://granicus.if.org/~mtgordon/Gallery/forest/
http://granicus.if.org/~mtgordon/Gallery/beach/
Second mistake: sunrise not sunset.
Ciao
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
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
A few forest-type pictures from Japan (cc license can be changed to whatever is needed for inclusion).
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/
Beach photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/antrix/sets/321004/
You can take anything under CC license there. Larger sizes available on request.
Photos from Christian Kellner:
http://www.gnome.org/~gicmo/photos/
http://www.caedes.net/
Really good photo’s but not sure about the licensing. You may want to contact them.
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.
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/
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
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 ;-).
And much more: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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 😉
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.