wallpaper

[Alexander Toresson]

On Nov 7, 2007 7:45 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Enrico Tröger wrote:
>
> > If so, the requested feature should be quite easy to add. Add a
> > spinbutton in the preferences dialog to define the timeout between
> > changing the image and we need a timer(e.g. g_timeout_add()) which calls
> > then the routine to change background. Maybe I'm missing something
> > because I didn't look at the code at all but I guess it could be as
> > easy as this.
>
> Perhaps I should start a "Brian's Laws of Software Development":
>
> 1.  Don't make claims as to how easy or hard it is to add a feature to a
> codebase you know nothing about.
>
> Really, if I had a nickel for every time someone's said "it should be
> easy to add X"...
>
> There's also a question of whether or not I even *want* this feature in
> xfdesktop.  As demonstrated, it's possible to do it outside of
> xfdesktop, and I'm not sure this is a feature that's commonly-used
> enough to warrant cluttering up the desktop settings dialog.  It's bad
> enough as it is (and I already have a redesign planned).
>
> On the other hand, the 'xfdesktop --reload' method is kinda icky, since
> it does way more than necessary: not only does it reload the backdrop,
> but it also throws away and redraws all the icons, and throws away and
> regenerates the desktop menu.
>
>         -brian
>

You could perhaps implement a --reload-wallpaper option, as a
middle-ground solution?

Regards, Alexander Toresson