Hello everybody, it's hard to admit it, but pantheon-wallpaper probably won't make it for Luna. It has dreadful bugs like https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-wallpaper/+bug/814948 or https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-wallpaper/+bug/886633 and no active maintainer.
Moreover, I think it's no longer relevant. It was started back when Nautilus was drawing wallpaper. Nowadays GNOME wallpaper is drawn by gnome-settings-daemon, so the advantage of being standalone is no longer relevant. Pantheon-wallpaper uses Cairo for rendering and therefore its transitions are smoother, but I've compared them on a laptop back from 2005 and I can't say pantheon-wallpaper is *much* smoother. In addition, GNOME implementation supports interfaces about which we haven't even dreamed about yet, e.g. libvte semi-transparency, Ubuntu lock screen, etc, and its way of storing configs is already widely supported. Smooth transitions are a job of GPU drivers. Client-side workarounds for that are not a good idea. GDK pixbuf which is [probably] used by gnome-settings-daemon is more likely to get performance improvements from GPU drivers than Cairo. Latest Intel drivers boost its performance many times compared to previous versions, while Cairo performance is largely unchanged. Maintaining a custom solution for the sake of improvement opportunities doesn't make much sense either. Most features like https://blueprints.launchpad.net/pantheon-wallpaper/+spec/focus-blur should be implemented as standalone daemons telling the wallpaper what to do, not inside wallpaper service to bloat it with potentially unused features. And it's very unlikely that we'll drop gnome-settings-daemon in the foreseeable future, so the original problem which led to creation of pantheon-wallpaper is extremely unlikely to reappear. Given all of the above, I propose dropping pantheon-wallpaper completely. It's not worth the effort. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
