Re: Conflicting backgrounds

[raster redhat com]

On 22 Feb, Daniel Burrows scribbled:
->  On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 06:47:01PM +0000, Ian Campbell was heard to say:
->  > 
->  > Or maybe it is possible for GNOME to set a WM hint so that a GNOME aware
->  > wm wouldn't touch the background?
->  
->    Why is Gnome touching the background anyway?  I realize that you can turn
->  it off, but this feature is completely redundant with most window managers.
->  (with the possible exception of fvwm* and twm)

IMHO you are correct - but background-properties is a tool like "xv
-root" for setting the bg for less capable wm's or wm's that simply
havent been configured well (fvwm can set the bg easily by having the
restart or init funciton in your configs call xv-root or whatever -
small script and m4 macro processign can handle thsi nicely).

IMHO the MW is mroe capable than any other tool of deciding what
backgroudn to show when (eg different backgroudns for different
desktops (E and windowmaker both fully support this) - also knowing
whne to "unload images" (E does this for a desktop you dont look at for
X minutes (configurable) so to save memory it frees the pixmaps from
memory - reloading if you go to that desktop).

Also the WM could "in theory" scroll the bg pixmap if it allowed you to
scroll around its large virtual desktop - either scaling the image to
be the size of the whole virtual desktop, or scrolling the tiled
image... again - WM dependant but somehting the background properties
cannot ever hope to do.

But background-properties should be there for those who chose not to
run a WM that can do this.

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