Re: Fixing a multi-monitor background regression

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> In 2.28, we changed the handling of backgrounds on multi-monitor
> setups to be repeated on each monitor instead of stretched over all of
> them. While I believe that was the right call and the current
> behaviour is much better for most of our users, there is a vocal group
> of people who are very unhappy that their carefully crafted
> dual-screen backgrounds no longer work.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609809
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603551
>
> have patches to gnome-desktop and control-center to bring spanning
> backgrounds back as a style option in the appearance capplet (next to
> 'Tiled', 'Zoom', etc).
>
> This is a borderline UI change (adds a new option to the combo box)
> and adds one new string.
> I think we should get this in for 2.30. Comments ?

Ok, it turns out that this needs a corresponding nautilus change as
well, which I've put in

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610396

CCing nautilus list to get their ok for this too.