Re: [MiNT] Background

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:08:12 , "Jean-François Lemaire" <jflemaire@skynet.be> wrote:
> On Monday 19 Sep 2011 19:41:07 Peter Slegg wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:04:57 , "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.d
> e>
> wrote:
> > > Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> > > > > It is up to applications to use that facility to draw a desktop.
> > > >
> > > > This is not how it works. The AES draws the desktop. Period. The
>
> > How it works is irrelevant. Users don't care about the inplementation.
> > They DO care that their desktops are broken.
>
> What Jo Even is saying is that GEM has been working like this for 25 years.
>
> It's the way it was designed, as far as I know.

So why did it turn my Thing background yellow ?!

It surely wasn't designed to do that and has ever done it before.

> > The aes shouldn't even have it's own menu and desktop screen, that has
> > always been a strange feature that should be removed.
>
> What do you propose? If the AES is run without a desktop, or the desktop
> crashes, you need some way to recover. However, I agree that the current
> implementation is less than perfect, with the entry "XaAES xxx Release" und
> er
> that weird "Clients" non-standard sub-menu, amid the accessories, and the w
> ay
> the AES is considered as an application when keyboard-switching apps, among
>  other annoying details.
>

How about using the Task Mgr to start the Desktop ?

Regards,

Peter