multiple desktops and background painting

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Cody Tracy wrote:
> Much better idea than my patch.  I've been trying to finish it but I'm
> loaded here at work.  The patch just saved settings per "desktop".  Having

that's what you want. however, the desktop being painted would come from the 
View, not the windowing system.

the windowing system only has the concept of the currently active desktop, 
which with composition managers may not be the only desktop being viewed. 
that's the problem.

> multiple containments sounds like a lot of overhead but better for
> configuration. 

multiple containments are only a *possibility* with this. they are not the 
solution or even what would first happen. it's multiple *views* so a single 
containment, if it wishes to offer variance by virtual desktop, still needs 
to implement this internally.

> Since I don't use desktop effects the thought of having 
> multiple containments seems like it would be a waste of resources.

that's why we'd keep the default configuration as is, with one view per screen 
that publishes as its desktop whatever the current virtual desktop is.

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