Re: gnome-backgrounds module status

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

The module is currently unmaintained, unfortunately. I will probably
take over maintenance of the module, as soon as I finish a few more
things with the capplet and such. It only makes sense, no? Though, I
don't think the module will be able to make it into GNOME 2.6 at any
rate, much of the capplet's back-end design was entirely designed for
the purpose of clean defaults to be shipped with third-party images,
just like this. As you probably already know, Mark and I spent several
iterations designing the capplet around this idea.

If we can come up with a nice list of suggested background inclusions,
so that we can get appropriate approvals beforehand, that would be
excellent, as Mr. Burns would say.

-- dobey

On Mër , 2004-03-03 at 06:42, Thomas Wood wrote:
> I remembered the other day that a while ago this module had been created
> in CVS with the intention of packaging some nice wallpapers to
> distribute with GNOME. 

> As far as I know, Mark Finlay created the module and was going to be in
> charge of maintaining it. I checked it out and there are a few
> translucent backgrounds in there, but that is all. 
> Sadly Mark will obviously not be able to continue this commitment, so I
> was wondering if anyone knew the status of the module. If it is
> unmaintained completely, and no one else is eager to take it on, then I
> would be more than happy to take on responsibility for maintaining it.
> As a suggestion irrespectively, I think it would be nice to have Lapo's
> background tiles (www.it.gnome.org/~bat/tiles) in the module, as long as
> Lapo doesn't have any objections.
> 
> -Thomas