I would like a followup on this post asking about animated wallpapers. That was half a year ago and I was wondering I could get an update as to whether or not this is going to happen sometime soon. Please tell me it's happening.

Animated wallpapers take alot of system resources, especially with high resolution.
I cant speak for Display fusion, however If you are intent on getting an animated wallpaper, there are 2 alternatives that come to mind:

Deskscapes: Designed basically to do exactly what you want; but cost 10$ (it does have a free trial though)
http://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/features.asp

Rainmeter:
extremely versatile, and powerful program, capable of many functions (including running animations on your desktop). The only downside is it can be a bit complicated and overwhelming to get properly working.

http://rainmeter.net/

Of the 2 I would strongly recommend rainmeter, if you have the time to figure it out..

Hi, I purchased display fusion a couple of years ago, but this is my first time posting on the forums. Forgive my disregard to whatever protocols that may exist.

I'm simply wondering if there is a way to set an animated .gif file as my desktop background image?

Thanks in advance for the response.

This post was merged on Feb 03, 2015.

While were on the subject; Might I suggest WebM as it is superior to gif in virtually every way.. (it can run at 60fps & 1080p with very low resource usage) It supports sound to! (though I would suggest an option to auto-mute it when any window besides the desktop is in focus)

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried the stardock program...
It's absolute garbage. Sorry! First, it doesn't work with .gif files. Second, it is a massive resource hog. Third, has a horrible and buggy interface. Finally, it is extremely limited in what it can do. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone - even your enemies! Oh yeah, and it requires you to install 2 other add-on bloatware programs, and the "free" trial will only work AFTER you confirm an email address so they can spam you.

Regardless, thanks for the input!

It's very strange that a simple program doesnt exist that allows users to embed .gifs or video files into their desktop backgrounds. It's a feature that I see countless of requests for.

Wow this post is still going? And webm seems like a much better candidate than gif.