RE: Desktop background

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

What does every think of this idea.

All configuration that is currently slit between WM and GNOME
should be handled by GNOME. The WM spec would have to hash out
all the details then the WM would have to get the information
from gnome (is that what's corba is for?). If a WM wanted to
enhance from the GNOME spec then it could have a configuration
that just contained the additions. Or it couls contain all but
anything that change would have to reported back to GNOME so
the two configurations remain in sync.

I believe that multiple desktops is inherently a WM issue
since all that really is happening is windows being hidden/revealed.

Telsa, Enlightment will do different backgrounds on different
desktops under GNOME. So you don't need to be jealous.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Telsa Gwynne [mailto:hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 7:11 AM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Desktop background
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:35:30PM -0500 or thereabouts, Mike 
> Bond wrote:
> > 
> > As I recall, the heart of the question was whether or not the GNOME
> > background capplet had a way of controlling per workspace background
> > images. The problem with GNOME controlling this as I 
> understand it is
> > that it is the wm that does the background switching as the 
> workspaces
> 
> Ahh. Currently, like many people, I use a combination of Gnome for
> setting some things and my window manager (windowmaker) for setting
> others. And I have wondered how to get different backgrounds for
> different workspaces. As I (don't?) understand it, Gnome and
> windowmaker have slightly different ideas about workspaces, or 
> something? (I remember that one of the pagers for Gnome did really
> strange things with windowmaker.) 
> 
> Like someone who posted, when I had the windowmanager controlling
> the backgrounds, Gnome would start up, draw its background, and then
> windowmaker would superimpose its background on that. I tried 
> disabling
> the Gnome backgrounds out of curiosity, and then found that something
> -- transparent gnome-terminals, I think -- wouldn't work. It was odd.
> gnome-terminals would be transparent with reference to the 
> windowmaker-
> provided background (which I wanted) but switching the Gnome 
> backgrounds
> off stopped this. I got confused then.
> 
> When I got a decent monitor, I discovered that my windowmaker
> themes looked _vile_ (they were pretty on the crap monitor!) and
> switched to Gnome backgrounds anyway.
> 
> > I had actually asked about enhancing the background capplet 
> to support
> > multiple workspace background selections some time ago, 
> don't remember
> > any responses. I agree that it would be a great idea in the 
> interests of
> > simplifying usability if it could do this.
> 
> I would love this. I try to make my different workspaces different
> in some ways, so I can tell which one is the one with all the 
> connections to another machine, and which one is the one I keep
> all the terminals where I'm su'd to root, and which one is the sillies
> one and so on. Mostly, I use the tclass option of gnome-terminal for
> that and have different appearances for windows on different 
> workspaces. 
> I saw a demo of Corel's Linux version running a while ago. It 
> uses KDE, 
> which I don't know a lot about. But either KDE, or KDE+Corel 
> bits, was 
> providing different backgrounds for different workspaces, and I 
> was jealous :)
> 
> Telsa
> 
> 
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