How did I not spot this before?

[HalationEffect]

So I was messing around in KDE's Desktop Settings, and noticed the Globe option. I've no idea how long that's been there, but I knew I'd never tinkered with it, so I decided to give it a whirl.

I'm really loving it, especially in interactive mode with placemarks switched on... it's like having an atlas on my desktop, that I can drag around and zoom in on! The various different map themes available are icing on the cake: satellite, atlas, earth at night, moon, etc.

[oshunluvr]

Come on, dude. Where's the screenshot? You're killing me...

[HalationEffect]

Come on, dude. Where's the screenshot? You're killing me...

Your wish is my command!

Shots 1 and 2 are using Map Theme: Atlas, Projection: Mercator (the 2nd shot is after dragging and zooming in). Shot 3 is Map Theme: Earth At Night, Projection: Globe.



You can even set it to "Follow the sun", and it will horizontally scroll the map (or rotate the globe, if you're in globe mode) to match the rotation of the Earth.

[oshunluvr]

That's neat! When I get my new 27" monitor (no time soon) that would really look cool. Thanks for the screenies.

@Teunis: I tried a bit but I wasn't sure if I had found the right things. I found some shots from 2007 that obviously weren't what I was looking for. I'm stuck at work (on a windows machine) or I would have just launched it myself. Besides, what's the point of having on-line friends if you can't bug 'em with dumb requests once in awhile! :cool:

[dmeyer]

Its really easy to make animated and/or scripted wallpapers since KDE 4.9. Though I switch it off because I find it too fun to play with and it makes me super unproductive.