GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 552857
Support fading between backgrounds
Last modified: 2009-01-20 02:52:56 UTC
Right now when switching desktop backgrounds in the appearance capplet it just cuts immediately from one to the other. A nice subtle piece of polish would be to crossfade between the old background and the new one. In bug 552856 I attached a patch to add new apis to allow for cross fades. Below I'll attach a patch to use the new apis (this only matters if nautilus isn't running).
Created attachment 118983 [details] [review] call gnome_bg_set_pixmap_as_root_with_crossfade instead of gnome_bg_set_pixmap_as_root
Good to go as soon as we've branched or 2.25 (and the desktop bits have been committed).
Time for this now?
nope, still waiting on bug 552856 which Soeren is looking into.
Created attachment 122143 [details] [review] latest iteration from rawhide this version handles the separation of background changing and background transitioning, and suppresses spurious notifications from gnome_bg_load_from_preferences() call at startup.
Created attachment 123959 [details] [review] Update to work with Behdad's changes from trunk
gnome-desktop changes landed so i've commited this (with minor changes to accomodate api churn from the gnome-desktop review)