Re: [MiNT] Background

[Stefan Niestegge <beetle@abbuc.de>]

I want to add my thoughts to this from the view of a poor user.


Wether its the AES task to display a background or not - i can't say, i 
simply don't know.

But the existing desktops are limited:

- Teradesk: displays only solid colors or patterns as background
- Jinnee displays only up to 8bpp wallpapers and is closed source
- Thing displays only up to 8bpp wallpapers as well. Its now open but 
nothing changed yet.
  using my Falcons Radeon GFX card Thing is currently only displaying 
monochrome 1bpp images - this is
  most probably a Problem of the VDI hacks used to integrate Radeon 
support into Falcon TOS...

MyAES can override the background object by telling it in its config 
file. This lets
Teradesk and Thing run with the 16 or 32 bit desk.jpg in myaes skin 
folder as background.

I'd appreciate to have something like an "force_wallpaper = 
/path/filename.img" in xaaes.cnf
If that setting is commented out, empty or not existant, the desktop has 
control about background object as usual.

To be able to change that wallpaper on the fly using hotkeys is good.

Can't this be possible for XaAES? If our Desktops get fixed for 
displaying nice truecolor wallpapers themselves,
one can simply disable the wallpaper override by commenting it.


Greetings,
Stefan "Beetle" Niestegge