multiple desktops and background painting

Chani chanika at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 03:07:51 CET 2008


On February 7, 2008 10:03:00 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Chani wrote:
> > I'd just like to make it clear that I think it would be kinda silly to
> > offer wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop instead of
> > containment-per-virtual-desktop; if people have one desktop containment
> > for each virtual desktop, they can set each to its own wallpaper.
>
> these are two different use cases. remember that a Containment has two
> primary purposes:
>
> a) to contain a collection of plasmoids
> b) to paint a background behind them
>
> it is fully valid to want the same plasmoids on all your virtual desktops
> (using virtual desktops to organize your windows only) but different
> backgrounds. (b')

ok, I've changed my mind, this does make sense :)

I could have the same activity on two of my desktops, but have it show a 
different background to remind me where I am...

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