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Bug 166615 - plz added public method to add a background to ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
plz added public method to add a background to ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Background
unspecified
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-08 00:38 UTC by Kristof Vansant
Modified: 2011-02-12 03:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Kristof Vansant 2005-02-08 00:38:47 UTC 
this would be usefull for following bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140768

with this eog could copy a background as .eog-wallpaper in the home directory
and put a nice name in backgrounds.xml so the use won't see .eog-wallpaper in
the gnome-wp-capplet. It should see EOG Wallpaper or something like that.
Because the user must think of it as a wallpaper and not a file on the system.

I think a lot of viewers could make use of this function them.
Comment 1 Kristof Vansant 2005-07-25 23:39:21 UTC 
ok what about this:
eog saves a file as .eog-background and creates a file .eog-background.desc.xml
in the xml file background can read what name it has to show in the gui.
EOG in this case.

hidden is better since we have more then one app that can save wallpapers
and we want to keep our home folder clean looking as possible.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2011-02-12 03:22:41 UTC 
EOG already copies the file in a hidden location if it's remote or on a removable drive, and GNOME 3 will show "Current background" for the currently loaded background anyway.