Wallpaper / Ambience Thread?

[Levone1]

So I came across an article on HN that talked about a glowing phenomenon happening in the ocean somewhere - Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms - The New York Times - and I really liked the picture in the article, and thought it would make a good ambience…

Then, I thought it would be nice to share it, but I was hesitant to open a new thread just to share one picture, so I figured maybe I would find an old thread that had something to do with ambience, and just post there. Then I had a thought - what about a thread to share favorite ambience backgrounds? We could post a screen shot, and attach a link to the picture…
I don’t know, what do you think?

[tn71]

I like the idea of this thread, so here is my current one.

My kids are into Bluey at the moment, which is an Australian kids show (it’s worth a watch if you have access), and there is an image of their home that I liked so it’s now my background.

Image can be found here (no adjustment needed for the ambience, given you’re happy with how mine looks (on my XZ2)): https://www.bluey.tv/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Bluey-Spot-the-Difference-Original-Version-scaled.jpg

I then thought, why not incorporate Waydroid into it, which looks nice for the SFOS running apps page, but not so much for the Waydroid wallpaper. I took it further and downloaded a larger clock widget for Waydroid, as I need it open all the time anyway for work notifications, so I have a larger time and date to look at when on that page.

SFOS:

Waydroid:

[mive]

unbury this thread
here are 3 ambiences based on kde plasma wallpaper (“WhiteSur”, “SweetSpace”, “Orioniden”

WhiteSur (darker version) (highlight color redish)

Orioniden (darker version) (highlight color purplish)

SweetSpace (highlight color blueish)

As I dont know how to build noarch with sailfish ide (at least yet) tar archive with i486 and both arm

ambience-WhiteSur-1.0-1.targz (192.4 KB)
ambience-Orioniden-1.0-1.targz (206.7 KB)
ambience-SweetSpace-1.0-1.targz (187.9 KB)

[jiral]

I was already thinking about a minimalist ambience for the J2. I don’t know the precise size of the screen (in pixel) so I took the estimations I found and created a first gimp draft of what I have in mind.

Later that year, once (and hopefully if) I get the Jolla Phone I would like to put this into reality.

[Kanthal]

Resolution should be roughly 2400 * 1080 according to specs (20:9, 6.36", ~390ppi) and your ambiance should be square, so 2400*2400 in this case.
You can start with this and then resize or move if you want to start designing.

[jiral]

As I am a dry swimmer yet, may I ask why the ambiance should be square, when the screen is not?
Resizing isn’t a big deal as I have logo as vector graphic. But I’d probably post process the final image for a tiny bit of texture.

[Kanthal]

For consistency in different orientations as far as I remember. You can still use pretty much anything you want, but it will be cropped when you set it.

[eson]

@Kanthal

2400*2400 in this case

No, ambience images should be 2048*2048. Check the documentation, please!

[fingus]

@eson

No, ambience images should be 2048*2048. Check the documentation, please!

“Use a high-resolution photo, it should preferably have about 3000 pixels in both dimensions as the Ambience tool will crop the photo heavily. The background images of the built-in ambiences have the dimension of 2048 x 2048 pixels.” from:

Ambiences

[Kanthal]

I did check to verify beforehand as @fingus shared.
Please take your own advice

[frankps]

I love this one!

I have a Sonic on one of my phones. This would be cool on the other!

[jiral]

Just in case anyone is interested. Here is the background.

C2 (1600x1600) / Standard size (2048x2048)

Jolla Phone (2400x2400)

[rdomschk]

Many Thanks for this. I search for animated Ambience the old patch-animated-ambience from markkyboy or spamhunter. I want to fork it but markkyboy had 2019 delete all his patches . Had anybody a copy on a old phone? This patch make that its possible to use gif as background. The battery drain should be solve with stop the animation with screen light off. Thanks in advance.

I have also made a picture for Sony Xperia 10iii.

[Edz]

I found remnants of my patch;

Wallpaper {
    id: wallpaper

    AnimatedImage {
        cache: false
        id: animation
        anchors.fill: parent
        source: Ambience.homeWallpaper
        fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectCrop
        onStatusChanged: playing = (status == AnimatedImage.Ready)
    }

    property alias applicationBackgroundSourceImage: appBgSourceImage
    property alias applicationBackgroundOverlayImage: appBgOverlayImage
    readonly property bool exposed: transitioning || (background && background.status == Image.Ready)
}

The above only works when you have an ambience installed that contains a GIF.
Adding an ambience from your Gallery will not work. You must build your ambience yourself and make sure it contains a GIF image.

I played around with this stuff 8 or more years ago, I forgotten most of what I achieved.

[rdomschk]

Good morning - the patch Animated Ambience is online now at webcataloge. I hope it works also on all phones, because it was not easy to find a way that a defaultuser can use it without root. Unfortnatally I could not share good HD gif because copy rights and size limit at webcataloge.