Re: [Nautilus-list] desktop background isn't nautilus business

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro fateware com> writes:
> Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > 
> > I got confused the first time I ran Nautilus b/c it replaced my
> > background with a gray one, so I thought it ignores control center.
> > But after that if I set back the background in control center, Nautilus
> > will keep it.
> > 
> > --
> > Marius Andreiana
> 
> 
> The initial gray flash is an ugly bug we've had for a while.  It would
> be nice to fix.
> 
> I cant imagine it would be too hard to fix.
> 
> It might have something to do with the initial state of EelBackground -
> solid white.  Instead the initial state should probably be whatever the
> current user's preference is.  But this is just speculation.
> 

For the gray flash I think you just need to set the window background
to whatever you will draw on exposes, before you show the
window. Either that or use a window background of None.

Marius may instead mean the following though: we have the usual
defaults-hardcoded-in-apps problem for the default background. 
Nautilus is out-of-sync with
background-properties-capplet. i.e. Nautilus defaults to brushed metal
and the capplet to something else. 

The capplet won't actually ever _set_ the defaults, so if you have
never changed your background and run Nautilus, you will get the new
Nautilus background instead of the one you had previously.

<plug>This is of course the motivation for schemas.</plug>

Havoc