[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 16380] Desktop:Settings:Background with transparent color removes previous image

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16380

--- Comment #5 from Doug Denault <doug at safeport.com> ---
Three screen shots added. Note I do not have gimp installed so I can not
produce the old result. I think these three images make it clear what has
changed:

1) https://www.safeport.com/stretched
2) https://www.safeport.com/scaled_white
3) https://www.safeport.com/scaled_transparent

1) image is stretched to fill the screen. As you can see this is a high quality
image that only needs to be stretched horizontally to fill the screen. With
this image there is some distortion. If really required I can provide an image
where the distortion is not acceptable.

2) Here we have solid white and scaled. Again no gimp You can see the white
boarders by the width of the task bar. This is not very hard to reproduce just
pick an image that will not fill your monitors screen

3) Here we have transparent and scaled. This is the same result as #2. So my
first point was/is the fixed provides no new function, it merely removes
something that was useful, at least in my opinion. Comparing #2 to #3 you can
see the distortion in the image.

In the old behavior If I first did  stretched+transparent and followed that
with scaled+transparent the current image overlays the previous image. This has
the effect of coloring in the white boarders with the right and left parts of
the stretched background. 

In my case I have a lot of images that worked fine on my 17" (am smaller)
monitors but are totally unacceptable on my 22" (and larger) monitors. On the
theory that the purpose of the background function is to provide a cool looking
desktop of the user's choice, the old code is much better. My second point was
for people that prefer the current version, they can have that by using scaled
with a solid white background. So the "fix" provides nothing new, it just
removes some options in what images can be used for a background.

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