Re: nautilus2 background flash

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 7 Jun 2002, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > > It might be an idea to use special code for the desktop background,
> > > rather than EelBackground. Maybe even use the libbackground applier
> > > code, since that is what gnome-settings-daemon uses to set the
> > > background when nautilus isn't running.
> > 
> > Ugh. That sounds conceptually ugly, and requires a fair amount of code to 
> > not regress on EelBackground features.
> 
> Currently the background is being redrawn way too often, even if you
> just reload the desktop directory or add a file to it. This needs fixing
> badly. (I've added a bug about it.)

That would be a bug in all nautilus windows, and we need to fix it.
 
> Plus it seems silly to use different drawing code in 
> gnome-settings-daemon and nautilus.

Seems even more silly to use different drawing code in different nautilus 
directory views.
 
> Maybe we don't need to get rid of EelBackground. Just tweak it for the
> desktop background.

Yeah. I hope we can do this. I'm not sure why using the libbackground code 
should affect flickering at all, using that just seems like code churn and 
adding more code-paths. The flickering is because of the order and timing 
of the windows being mapped.

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