[Nautilus-list] getting rid of the other flash (was Desktop background, fixes and hacks)

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, July 24, 2001, at 10:06  AM, Owen Taylor wrote:

> This is, I believe a different (and much briefer) flash - the problem,
> is that nautilus is loading the background image asynchronously, and
> paints first in the background color before loading the final image.
>
> It might be good to load the background image synchronously if its a
> local URL.

One alternative might be a bit of hysteresis. We can give it a fixed 
amount of time to load the image before creating the window. If the image 
is loaded quickly, then you get no flash. Maybe sync. I/O is better though.
 It's not obvious to me.

    -- Darin