Re: Fixing a multi-monitor background regression

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> 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.
> """

Sounds reasonable. I'm not actually 100% sure of the detailed zoom
behaviour of the span option (don't have a second monitor here to
check).

> 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?
>

This dates back to November:

  [appearance] update the background style option labels

    Clarify the background style options as per the suggestions in bug 411048
    by making all the descriptions the same tense and replacing "Fill screen"
    with "Stretch".

    Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411048