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Bug 543596 - Update Gnome BG API to include workspace number
Update Gnome BG API to include workspace number
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: Background
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 48004 544178 544223 544242
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-18 13:44 UTC by James Sharpe
Modified: 2013-02-21 11:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
Patch to add per workspace configuration (9.56 KB, patch)
2008-07-18 13:47 UTC, James Sharpe
none Details | Review

Description James Sharpe 2008-07-18 13:44:10 UTC
Patches attached to:
* Add workspace number to gconf key to allow for per workspace configuration of wallpaper
* Add functions to query if a given background setting is writable
Comment 1 James Sharpe 2008-07-18 13:47:54 UTC
Created attachment 114772 [details] [review]
Patch to add per workspace configuration
Comment 2 Samuel Abels 2008-07-23 15:25:08 UTC
How would you change the default background? I.e. the one that's used when a new workspace is added.
Comment 3 James Sharpe 2008-07-23 15:53:51 UTC
The default background is still fetched from the schema without the workspace number in the gconf path, so the default background is whatever the schema is set to which is the same as the current behaviour.
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2008-12-05 15:25:28 UTC
FWIW, I'm not 100% convinced it's the right way to go. But this is more like a feeling. I find it weird that users of GnomeBG have to track the workspace changes.
Comment 5 Dan Ballard 2009-02-20 19:53:33 UTC
Is this still being worked on? It seems like a often requested feature and if it's died, either it should be revived or a new attempt should be started.  I was just wondering if this is going to go forward?
Comment 6 Tobias Mueller 2009-09-12 15:41:59 UTC
Hm. I would be interested in the outcoming of that thing as well... Any news? Could the assignee please speak up or remove him/herself as asignee?
Comment 7 Ian D. Miller 2010-01-09 00:33:21 UTC
Indeed, this is an oft requested feature:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/93/

Please provide status update and/or reassign.
Comment 8 lakshmanan 2010-02-18 16:37:52 UTC
I really need this feature in my gnome desktop. And I am not alone. 

Please implement this.
Comment 9 Artem Zhirkov 2010-03-08 04:38:20 UTC
I need this feature too, I not only me, many people around the world asking for this - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/452/
Comment 10 Bastien Nocera 2013-02-21 11:11:27 UTC
In GNOME 3.8, gnome-shell is the sole component drawing the background. Any "background per workspace" work should go there, probably in an extension.