[Bug 163401] Plasma should set root window background too

[Jonas Kölker]

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------- Additional Comments From jonaskoelker gnu org  2008-06-07 17:58 -------
> plasma does not follow the traditional "here's a wallpaper picture" paradigm.
i'll take your word on that, i don't know the inner workings of plasma as well as i think you do.

all i have used is the "Configure Desktop" dialog (right-click the desktop), which follows the traditional "here's a wallpaper picture", with no zooming, no dynamic backgrounds and no "fun".  i was thinking "set the root window to the same as the plasma window" (i.e. the desktop).

> personally i'm of the opinion that things painting to the root window and picking stuff up from the root window is Bad and maybe even Foolish in this day and age.
oh; i didn't know it was a bad idea.  could you briefly explain to me why that is?  i didn't notice any badness when using conky with compiz and nautilus; could you explain to me what bad things happened that i wasn't aware of?

i'm not playing the devil's advocate here--i'm just a curious geek who would like to understand his toys a little better.

> if apps want translucency, they should be using argb visuals.
it'd be great if semitransparency got replaced by real transparency, no argument there.  however, semitransparent apps exists today, and i would like to use one.

is it somehow possible to satisfy your desire for kde to do the technically right thing (a fine goal) and simultaneously satisfy my desire to have conky's semitransparency match what plasma is showing (a not unreasonable goal, i'd suggest)?

how about when the user sets the wallpaper, what gets rendered onto the plasma window also gets written to a file--then the user can run a script that runs fbsetbg on that file and be happy?

or how about having a way to set the wallpaper from the command-line?  then the user can do that, and invoke fbsetbg simultaneously (hey, that'll work with my old xplanet script).