Re: Fixing a multi-monitor background regression

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 09:08 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > Le dimanche 14 février 2010, à 20:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> >> In 2.28, we changed the handling of backgrounds on multi-monitor
> >> setups to be repeated on each monitor instead of stretched over all of
> >> them. While I believe that was the right call and the current
> >> behaviour is much better for most of our users, there is a vocal group
> >> of people who are very unhappy that their carefully crafted
> >> dual-screen backgrounds no longer work.
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609809
> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603551
> >>
> >> have patches to gnome-desktop and control-center to bring spanning
> >> backgrounds back as a style option in the appearance capplet (next to
> >> 'Tiled', 'Zoom', etc).
> >>
> >> This is a borderline UI change (adds a new option to the combo box)
> >> and adds one new string.
> >> I think we should get this in for 2.30. Comments ?
> >
> > Just double-check the documentation before committing: if the combo box
> > options are detailed there, you might want to send a notice to
> > gnome-doc-list before committing.
> >
> 
> Indeed they are, thanks for pointing that out Vincent.
> I've cc'ed gnome-doc-list and gnome-i18n for their opinion.

So the name of the option is "Span" and it goes in the Style
drop-down box?  Does it do any sort of scaling?  Is this right?

"""
Span: Displays portions of the image on each monitor according to
the monitor layout in the [link]Display Preferences[/link].  This
is only useful when you use multiple monitors.
"""

Also, I noticed in the patch on #609809 an option called "Stretch"
(in the content just before the addition).  I don't see this in
the docs or 2.28 UI.  Is it a renaming of one of the existing
options?

Thanks.

--
Shaun