On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 09:41 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 11:44 -0800, paul pksings com wrote: > > I'm a bit of a long-time Linux user and have come really like Gnome > > because it is clean, fast and just plain looks and works well. There is > > one feature in it that I personally really would like to see however, > > workspace specific backgrounds instead of the one background for all > > workspaces. > > > > In researching how to do it I find that it apparently can not be done. > > Nautilus, which handles the backgrounds, does not have that capability. > > > > There probably is some technical reason, bloat, difficulty or something as > > to why it can't. And I'd really like to know what it is. > > Not really. The reason is that its a fair chunk of work to figure out > how to make it work and implement it in the various modules needed. > Nobody has yet taken the time to do it. Actually, the hard part is probably figuring out how to integrate it into gnome-background-properties in an acceptable and non-confusing way. Implementation, though harder now with the dual handling of the background in gnome-settings-daemon and nautilus, is essentially easy. (Making it efficient and not *entirely* memory greedy a little harder.) But gnome-background-properties is probably the most fought over piece of UI real estate in GNOME, and background-per-desktop has been rejected in the past. Regards, Owen
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