Re: background in gnome 2.4

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>]

<quote who="Johannes Rohr">

> > You can't. Nautilus draws a window on top of the root window. That's the
> > only sane way to get desktop file management working.
> 
> Not the only _possible_ way. GMC sucked, yes, but it did not interfere
> with the desktop background. With GMC and E you could do exactly what the
> original poster wants. There are more apps that draw icons on the desktop,
> dfm comes to mind which also does not touch the background.
> 
> I'd assume that the only valid technical reason why nautilus always has to
> grab desktop background image management is that earlier versions (1.x)
> had their own built-in anti-aliasing. Something which is clearly obsolete
> now.

Noooo... You can't take keyboard focus on the root window, with every icon
being a different window. Plus a series of other things.

  http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/desktop-as-window.mbox

- Jeff

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