License and philosophy:\nQCDesktop is free to download and use, because free software is the future of software.\n\nYou can download the code under Downloads. Feel free to reuse and remake for any purpose, however you want. If you need a license, take:\n\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/MIT/\n\n© Ulrik Sverdrup 2005\nulrik.sverdrup at gmail.com
\n[[QCDesktop.zip|publicfiles/QCDesktop.zip]] v0.5u/Universal Binary (116 kB)\n\n* [[QCDesktopCode.tgz|publicfiles/QCDesktopCode.tgz]] Source Tarball\n* Old version: [[QCDesktop.zip|publicfiles/QCDesktop-old.zip]] v0.5 (86 kB)\n
''My Compositions''\n*[[Desktop Clock|publicfiles/Desktop Clock.zip]] (34 kB) displays a clock on the desktop -- make sure you check out the composition settings. The timezone is sadly hardcoded, but can be changed with Quartz Composer \n\n''Links''\n*[[quartzcomps.com|http://quartzcomps.com/]] keeps track of new Compositions\n*[[quartzcompositions.com|http://www.quartzcompositions.com/]] is a forum to discuss Quartz Compositions and use in VJing and more.\n*[[Zuga Kousaku|http://www.zugakousaku.com/]] provides downloadable Compositions: new, exiting and stunning.
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''Thursday, 19 July 2007''\n\nQCDesktop is now finally available as Universal Binary thanks to an unnamed benefactor. Thanks, gratefully.\nAlso, a french localization is provided by Antoine. Thanks!\n\nUlrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>
Version 0.5 u\n* Universal Binary (thanks anon!)\n* French localization (thanks Antoine!)\n\nVersion 0.5\n* Import Settings preference\n* Better organisation of preferences\n window\n\nVersion 0.4\n* Opens Compositions on drag to,\n or using "Open with…"\n* Reveals recent compositions with \n command pressed, opens them \n in Quartz Composer with alternative\n* Launches System Preferences\n moves composition to Screen Savers\n if needed\n* Many small tweaks\n\nVersion 0.3\n* Ability to play/stop\n* Recent compositions menu\n* Thumbnail display in recent menu\n* Handles the custom preferences of\n RSS Compositions correctly\n\nVersion 0.2\n* Displays just above the desktop\n* Adjustable alpha and erase color\n* Frame rate cap\n* Imports settings\n
QCDesktop displays Quartz Compositions on your Mac OS X Tiger desktop. \n\nYour desktop image is given the life of Quartz Compositions that can display any kind of animated art; a blue sea, an RSS feed, a clock.\n\nQCDesktop imports settings from the Screen Saver preferences database. To modify composition settings, open the Screen Saver preferences panel, select the composition and click "options…". \nYou can jump directly to the screen saver preference pane by selecting "Composition Options…" in the QCDesktop menu.\n*[[Version History]]\n\n[[Mars Software|http://www.musingsfrommars.org/index.php?p=791&postcat=25]] says:\n<<<\nThere are three good free applications that can display Quartz animations on your desktop: Desksaver Plus, Quartz Desktop, and this one... QCDesktop. For a variety of reasons, it's clear that the young programmer who came up with QCDesktop is now leading in this space.\n\nChief among its virtues, which no other desktop-screensaver app can match, is its ability to run screensavers at several different window levels:\n\n 1. The desktop itself, under the icons (this is the usual trick),\n 2. On the desktop, covering the icons,\n 3. In the layer with normal applications, and\n 4. Floating above other applications, but below the menubar (and dashboard widgets, if you run those on your desktop).\n\nNow that's cool enough to make me want this gorgeous freeware, but on top of that QCDesktop lets you\n\n * Adjust the opacity of the Quartz animation as it's playing\n * Adjust the frame rate of the animation, which has a big impact on CPU usage, and\n * Maintain a menu of recently played animations in its menubar icon, which is where this little puppy lives.\n\nWith all of these virtues, QCDesktop is now a proud member of the Mars software family! I actually use one or two others for running non-Quartz screensavers, but for Quartz Compositions, nothing is better than this!\n<<<\n
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displays Quartz Compositions on the desktop