Re: [MiNT] XaAES: background,was:Chaos in gradients

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

m0n0 wrote:

>
>  Am Donnerstag, den 01.09.2011, 22:41 +0200 schrieb Helmut Karlowski
>  <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>:
>
> > It would be quite easy if the desktop would not draw a background of
> > any  kind, e.g. teradesk uses the VDI to draw a background-bar. I
> > don't know  how to avoid this.
>
>  That's pretty clear... It's only good for people who actually don't
>  start an desktop, - or where the desktop handles the xaaes background
>  with care (so it's doesn't draw any background). (none, currently)
>
> > I plan to allow any program to draw the root-window, but the desktop
> > would  hide it (or it's icons would be hidden).
>
>  Not overdrawing the xaaes background with vbar/vrectfill (or
>  whatever...) sounds very possible (and easy to enclosure that part of
>  teradesk code within an if) to me (?). I don't understand why the icons
>  would be hidden. Everything is above the xaaes background and it doesn't
>  mess anything, but desktop icons are below the xaaes background? Hard to
>  believe...

In the current situation I could hide the desktop-background (along with the icons) through
XaAES, but it would already be possible to define any app to provide the background
(e.g. set SHELL=clock.app).



-Helmut