Re: [rox-users] Re: Use as wallpaper...

[Matthew W. O. <mat...@we...>]

-- Antiphon <ant...@ya...> wrote
(on Saturday, 31 January 2004, 10:53 AM -0500):
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 10:03 am, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > Stephen Watson <st...@ke...> wrote on 31/01/2004 (11:44) :
> > > If you are running the pinboard part of rox (e.g. rox
> > > --pinboard=Default), then all you need to do is right click on the root
> > > window, select "Backdrop..." then drag an image file to where it says
> > > "Drop an image here".
> >
> > Yes, I know this. The problem is that I want the linux desktop I setup
> > for my parents to be as userfriendly as possible.
> Perhaps you can persuade the author of the Mozilla extention below to
> add this functionality. I haven't looked at his code but it seems that
> the framework could be readily extended to allow dragging to the
> Pinboard.
> 
> IMHO, ROX-Filer should mimic KDE's ability to drag an image directly to the 
> pinboard w/o the intervening dialog. It should allow this for 
> image/png, /jpeg, and windows-bitmap. How hard would this be to add, Thomas?

Actually, I wouldn't like this -- I sometimes place image icons on my
desktop for later use. However, if the pinboard were to raise a dialog
if an image were dropped on it, asking if you wanted to use it for the
Backdrop, I wouldn't be opposed (particularly if I could also turn off
that feature).

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/