Re: [MiNT] Background

[olivier <olivier.landemarre@free.fr>]

 Le 14/09/2011 22:44, Peter Slegg a écrit :
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:48:13 , Jo Even Skarstein<joska@online.no>  wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 19:05 +0000, Peter Slegg wrote:
> >
> > > This background feature should be disabled by default. This discussion
> > > came up a few months ago about new features that break people's config.
> > I agree.
> >
> > > Also, when enabled, it really shouldn't over-ride the background displayed
> > > by the real desktop application like Thing or Jinnee.
> > I disagree. The AES background should override all other backgrounds.
> > That's the purpose of it.
> That's crazy. A desktop is an app that is run to do a task, the AES
> can't just arbitrarily over-ride that task. By that logic every window
> I open would be hidden behind a vile yellow background.
>
> The AES is there to provide services for applications hence it's name
> Application Environment Services. So it should provide an ability to
> display an image but is should be an application that displays the
> background image not the AES.
Desktop is not redraw by the application it is done by AES, applications 
have no idea how redraw the desktop.

Secondly as there is always a desktop (generally desktop applications 
but other like interface), this background is displayed until an other 
application take focus and have itself a desktop tree. So in this case a 
background picture never display if you not permit AES over-ride desktop 
background of the object 0 on application that have a background!

This is an interesting option to have the same background for all 
applications with background, there is in this less blink.

An example with Interface background.

http://myaes.lutece.net/images/interface.jpg

Now it is simple to have this feature as an option in the config file.

OL