Re: windowmaker's backgrounds

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: windowmaker's backgrounds
Date: 17:53 on 23 May 2005
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Peter da Silva said:
> As far as I can tell that's so you can, if for some weird reason you want
> to do this, give it different backgrounds for each desktop. Some people
> actually like this. There's a couple of users here who have CDE setups that
> make me want to stab myself in the face when I have to use them.

Well precisely. It's command line app for what I'd argue was an 
inherently graphical operation (or at least, benefits greatly from being 
graphical) which is 'optimised' for a condition which is only of use to 
a few fringe cases.

I mean, I'm no big fan of the Mac's molly coddling ways but this is 
pretty much everything I hate about Unix apps. If it spewed out pages of 
meaningless (to everyone apart from the developer) debug messages then 
I'd start suspecting that one of you magnificent bastards on this list 
had written it just to wind me up.

If they'd even just put in an option '-a' which did it for all desktops 
then I'd be marginally lest hateful.


There's stuff above here

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