The nerd fraction demanded the original star field as the background behind the earth – here it is folks, together with a new theme using this feature by default. Nearly every other theme has an update now, I added the option to disable this feature by default in all themes with overlays and non-spacey backgrounds.
This version comes with a massive cleanup in the home folder – the backgrounds folder is cleaned up on every theme change. Having all themes installed and activated once this could mean about 120 MB of disk space free for more pr0n.
To gain some space for the new feature in the GUI I spent some more graphical stuff with changing icons.
Tipp: test the new feature with the dragon theme.
Version 2.1.0:
* Added new function to render real star maps on the background
(if post f/x enabled, a little glow is added)
* Added python script to generate contrast-enriched star map from original
bright stars map @ http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?V/50
* Added cleanup: backgrounds folder is cleaned on every theme change
(saves up to 120 MB disk space)
* Theme change speedup: only neccessary backgrounds and overlays are copied
(saves some disk space, too)
* Special f/x buttons have icons now (needed space for stars button)
* Little speedup in post f/x: blurring and composing in one step
* Added SEARCHMAPURL to default config file
* Set LOGGING=1 in default config
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Sonntag,, 30. Januar 2011 @ 06:27.
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