Re: New Wallpaper Properties Dialog

[Mark Finlay <sisob tuxfamily org>]

> OS X autodetects which scaling method to use and allows you to override it
> if you wish. 

This is planned too - but do you want the dialog autodetecting every
time it runs, or would you rather it does it once and then save that
info to a file?

> Colours and transparency are an added bonus, but I honestly
> didn't know this worked until late 2.1.x. Probably something to relegate to
> cool distro and power user tricks.
> 
> I'd question the merit or usefulness of saving these, however. Seems like
> overkill for something that could be handled dynamically without extra work
> for the user. 

How is creating one file overkill? How does it harm anyone?

> Same goes for distro settings - they'll be shipping a preset
> wallpaper, and probably providing a few others just for fun. 

And what is the downside of having these extras properly configured by
default? We on the gnome-themes list are hoping to put together some
default backgrounds for Gnome, having this feature is pretty critical to
that because we're going to be including wallpapers, tiles,
translucencies etc..

> Is there a
> great need to store super-duper-amazing metadata to make a background image
> do the right thing when a user clicks on it?
> 
> > 2. When a user adds an image/transparency they only have to set the
> > scaling/background colour once.
> 
> I guess I'm not convinced that this is so deeply troubling that we need to
> apply clever magic to it. ;-)

Every little counts. If the system can store information in a file that
will remove annoyance for it's users then it should. I can't see any
reason why it shouldn't. "Remember what the user told you" is a pretty
basic principle of usability.

-- 
Mark Finlay 
Computer Science Student

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