Re: hard code freeze break request for eog

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a bug in the Eye of GNOME since the gio migration that won't
> allow a user to set an image as the background wallpaper[1]. Even worse,
> a user setting the wallpaper will get an ugly plain color as
> background...
>
> We have a patch to fix that[2], but unfortunately we didn't manage to
> review this in time before code freeze. Even worse, there are two
> strings that need to be added in order to fully fix this:
>
> - "Only local images can be used as wallpapers"
> - "To be able to set this image as your wallpaper, please save it
> locally in your computer"

Why not just copy it for them automatically? Isn't there a standard
background directory now to put things in anyway?

Luis