Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME-Backgrounds for GNOME 2.10

[Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>]

MacOSX opens a desktop background chooser on each screen, which is kinda
cute, kinda confusing the first time you see it tho

> > > Maybe in Xinerama the capplet should allow one background per screen.
> > > 
> > > 	Xav
> > 
> > Show me a simple straightforward UI for choosing an image for each
> > individual workspace/screen, and then we'll talk. Multi-head is
> > particularly hard, because each screen can be of a different resolution.
> 
> Well, show the current background capplet but with a different setting
> for each screen, e.g. if I launch it from the screen#0, I see and set
> the background for screen#0.
> And then just add a checkbox "set this background on all screens", which
> basically makes it behave as if there was only one big screen.
> I have attached a mockup.
> 
> Technically it's wrong because Xinerama screens can overlap, but in
> practice it never happens, so you could just revert to the non-Xinerama
> case when that happens, or better handle it intelligently.

Cheers,
Trent
Burs.t

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Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.