Re: new background images in cvs

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 23:45, Matthew Allum wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:27:25AM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I suggest you add a key like GPE/Desktop/Background that just holds
> > a URL. We should obviously provide some kind of UI to set it, probably
> > with a thumbnail display based on gpeiconlist.
Sounds like what I was thinking :)

> Could I suggest extending this to cover more than just images. The
> value would be in the form <background type>:<parameters>.
>
> Id suggest having values follow;
>
> img-stretched:<uri/filename>
> img-tiled:<uri/filename>
> img-centered:<uri/filename>
> col-solid:<color definition>
> col-gradient-vertical:<start color>,<end color>
> col-gradient-horizontal:<start color>,<end color>
OK if we do this we need to be able to have something render it to a
GdkPixbuf (or similar) so appmgr can render it too :) Or some sort of
not-root-window-only consideration, anyway (IMVHO :)

> -- Matthew
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