Re: [gnome-love] Re: Working with backgrounds

[Erik Grinaker <erikg wired-networks net>]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 15:57, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 01:56, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> >     - Image is less than, say, 25% of the screen; tiled
> >     - Image proportion is roughly that of screen; stretched
> >     - Image proportion does not match screen: scaled
> >     - I think very few people actually use center, so manual only
>
> What?  My experience (not just my personal use but also watching others
> I know) is that center is used quite a lot, and that tiled is used by
> almost no one.  Obviously, without a real study, my experience can't
> trump yours, but I think it does show that doing something such as
> removing centering as a choice is a bad idea unless you can somehow show
> that those around me really are in the minority.

Well, I didn't intend to actually remove the choice of centering an
image - just that center would never be chosen automatically by the
config applet. I couldn't figure out any situation where automatically
using center would make sense, so I just suggested using manual only.

As others have said, this method is flawed in many ways. It was never
intended to be complete, just an example of what I meant.


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