I like small details in software. Here’s a nice one I spotted the other day:
The Amazon Kindle app for iPad changes its background depending on the hour of the day. It even has some very nice effects, for instance, when switching to the night view, a falling star flies by.
Small details and nice polish shows your users that you care. Don’t be happy when it works, go the extra mile.
Allan Day
You know that GNOME is getting something similar next release, right? ;)
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/?id=b5c7f87ce00bc4a30fd3842a79bc20033b6910b3
Ray
Note, gnome has this ability, too. ssp added it a few years back for a feature we needed in fedora.
Matt
“Having the ability” doesn’t really count for much, though. Computers “have the ability” to do pretty much anything, but until a feature is in people’s faces, it might as well not exist.