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Re: [MiNT] Background



On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:43:11 +0200, Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:

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

Not only interesting but mandatory!

That's a matter of taste.

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

But why? If a user never touches it he will get the default behavior, and if he does he knows how to switch it off.

I repeat my opinion:

Hotkeys are good for quick access to features, but it's not a good way to configure anything. There are currently several existing methods of configuring stuff in XaAES:

1. In xaaes.cnf
2. By copying certain files to certain folders (e.g. IMG-files with specific names in $sysdir\xaaes\img\).
3. At compilation time.

We don't need another one. Also, when hotkeys is the only way to set desktop image it's impossible to include desktop images as a part of a theme. The desktop image should either be specified in xaaes.cnf or by copying "desk.img" to the texture-folder.

Besides, how is the state of the background image (and the image itself) saved?

Jo Even