[kde-linux] Very ugly image in X root window.

[James Tyrer]

On 11/12/2011 06:26 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2011, James Tyrer wrote:
>> On 11/10/2011 12:19 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
>>> On Thursday 10 November 2011, James Tyrer wrote:
>>>> On 11/03/2011 10:54 AM, James Tyrer wrote:
>>>>> Well, I have again wasted most of an hour trying to make a simple
>>>>> change to KDE and have not succeeded.  Did someone miss the point that
>>>>> hiding things does not make KDE easier to use?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know how to change the X root window image (it is behind
>>>>> the desktop but sometimes is viable) for KDE?  Or, if it is hard
>>>>> coded, what is its name and location?
>>>>>
>>>> This is the image:
>>>>
>>>>        http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/ugly.pn
>>> "ugly" is a matter of taste: http://bennip.de/?p=1631
>> It certainly is ugly when you expect something else and it is totally
>> out of place with the rest of your desktop.  But the reason that I said
>> that it is ugly is that someone appears to have decided for me that it
>> will be part of my desktop and there is no way to configure it or change it.
> I've set now that image as my current plasma wallpaper. It wasn't difficult to
> find the file, already installed on my system, once I've realized that it has
> nothing to do with KDE at all. After that, it was also easy to track the image
> on Google down to its roots: http://www.andreasn.se/blog/?p=58
Well, reading the blog, it is now wonder that I was fooled since the 
author of this background offered it as something which was not GNOME like.

Thanks for the assistance.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch