New desktop: updates

[Luca Roccia]

Il mar, 2003-10-14 alle 07:02, Philip Webb ha scritto:
> 031013 Luca Roccia wrote:
> > First of all I've to write a new setting manager
> > 'cause I plan to add support for custom bg for any desktop
> > and the one of xfdesktop isn't good for that.
> > There will be also the "picture list" and maybe a timer to change the bg.
> 
> excellent (encouraging smile)! the most important option is
> differently colored workspace backgrounds & if possible different patterns:
> it's one thing KDE has always done well & their code may give some ideas.

Setting different bg for workspace isn't that diffucult (i suppose).
I've only how to decide how to save the user options:
1) One only setting.xml file with all the options?
	This means that if you have 10 workspaces you'll have an image string
really to long (saving all 10 image paths on the same string is needed)
2) Create different workspace_option.xml file for any workspace (like
notes applet does for its notes)
	This means that propbably I'll have to break the compatibility with
xfdesktop and write a new setting manager.

I've also a question for the xfce developers: The desktop manager have
also to manage workspaces? In particular the number and names?

-- 
Luca Roccia <little_rock at users.sourceforge.net>