Review Request: Add an hidden option to set a translucent background for DesktopView

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 10:29:45 CEST 2009


On Friday 02 October 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Thursday 01 October 2009 21:24:13 Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > anything but the desktop shell painting the wallpaper is poor design. the
> >  window manager does not have enough knowledge of what is happening in
> > the shell to do so properly. what, exactly, is the benefit of letting
> > compiz draw the wallpaper? if it's simply visual bling, i'm really not
> > interested in encouraging it by adapting plasma-desktop to such a broken
> > idea.
>
> Shouldn't this be implemented as wallpaper plugin ("No Wallpaper") as well?
problem is that plugin should be aware of the view and set a flag on the view 
window, pretty fishy

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Marco Martin


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