Animated icons

[curiousnoob]

Just wondering if there's a way to have animated gifs as icons?

 

[Ian]

Welcome to the forums .

I'm not aware of a way to have animated icons (I'm assuming you mean somewhere like on the desktop?). I've had a search for 3rd party software to do this, but can't find any either. Stardock (http://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/) make a lot of customisation software, but it looks like even their apps can't do it.

 

[davehc]

I have a program, seldom used, animated wallpaper maker. Maybe the wallpaper can be shrunk and recopied as icons. I'll experiment.

 

[idoru17]

I have a program, seldom used, animated wallpaper maker. Maybe the wallpaper can be shrunk and recopied as icons. I'll experiment.

There is a software called 'microangelo on display' that is supposedly doing this.
You could also use Litestep, a windows alternative UI I've used a long time ago. Some plugins offered animated icons (I had an animated brazier for the recycle bin on a spawn theme I designed at the time)