On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:09:49 -0700, Ryan Paul wrote: >> Here is a slightly extreme idea. How about a dbus interface for >> changing the background? I guess all it should take is a path to an >> image and fade the background to it. > > It's already trivially easy to change the desktop image with GConf. A > D-Bus interface wouldn't really make it any easier. > >> I actually thought about this the other day as I wanted to have my IM >> application change the background to the person I'm talking to. I like >> pictures of family and friends as my background but I just never get >> around to changing it. > > Interesting idea. It took me about five minutes to implement with > Python. ;-) The following script uses D-Bus to detect when a new Pidgin > window is created and then uses GConf to change the desktop background. > Just put a file with the screen name of each person in ~/.purple/bg and > it will work: > [snipped remainder]
When you use this (or any other GConf-based background changer) do you see memory leaks in nautilus? I do with my own script. --Jack Spaar _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
