2008/1/19, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hey, > > for a long time now, we've had the problem that we need to install > multiple versions of the default background (regular, wide, dual-screen, > etc), and leave the user to pick the best one manually. > > I finally sat down and finished a patch the I had lying around to make > the gnome desktop support multi-resolution images. It piggybacks on > Soerens animated background work and lets you specify backgrounds like > this: > > <background> > <static> > <duration>10000</duration> > <sizes> > <file width="800" height="600">background-small.png</file> > <file width="1600" height="1200">background-medium.png</file> > <file width="1920" height="1200">background-huge.png</file> > </sizes> > </static> > </background> > > This will show up as a single entry in the appearance capplet, and > nautilus will pick the best size depending on the screen resolution. > > I hope to get this into F9 soon, for now, you'll have to use the > patch in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510554 > > > Matthias Great to have that functionality in Nautilus! now i'm wondering if something like this could be implemented for GDM as well..?? the GDM background for Fedora 8 is a .png image with a size of: 2560 x 1600 and having that auto adjusting to the user display size would be wonderful! or perhaps SVG support in GDM (couldn't both options in gdm's bugzilla)? _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
