[MacDV] OT: desktop pictures

[Mark M. Florida]

On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> This is totally off topic but I wondering if anybody might know. I've 
> got a
> white iMac at work with Panther and Ti Powerbook G4 400 at home also 
> with
> Panther same version on both. In the desktop and screensaver 
> preference I have
> it set to change the desktop picture every minute on the machine at 
> work when
> the pictures change it dissolves nicely from one to the next but on the
> Powerbook it just cuts straight to the new pic no gradual dissovle 
> like on the
> iMac. There's no option that I could find to specify transitions 
> anybody have
> any idea? I prefer it to dissolve rather than cut.

Two words:  Quartz Extreme.  Those effects are only available on 
machines with video cards that support Quartz Extreme, and a 400 MHz G4 
PowerBook does not support Quartz Extreme.  Bummer.

- Mark