New desktop

[Biju Chacko]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:38:32 +0200, Luca Roccia wrote:

> Today I've finished the inetgration of the background manager with xfce
> (changing background in xfce control panel changes the root bg). Right
> now you don't have to change anythig to make the new background manager
> to work :). All xfdesktop settings will be preserved and used.

This is interesting. 

> I hope to finish preliminar icon support this night. What I'm doing is
> reading all "icon file" placed in ~/Desktop (like gnome does). The
> format of an "icon file" will be similar to idesk ones (I'm not really
> sure about this, found nothing on fredesktop.org and maybe is better
> compatibility with gnome?).

See http://tinyurl.com/pytb . This is v 0.9.4, I think this has been superceded
by a newer version. I'll verify that on xdg-list.

> Anyway when icon support will be done, I'll release preview. I think
> that a screenshot in this preliminary stage is useless. Anyway if
> someone want to see my desktop with an image onto the root window, only
> have to ask :)

:-)

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