Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces
Anne Wilson
annew at kde.org
Fri Aug 28 08:13:24 UTC 2009
On Friday 28 August 2009 08:22:06 Fennix wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
> > > > Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces?
> > > > If yes how?
> > >
> > > Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
> > > Waaaaah.
> >
> > Yes, you can now. I do have. I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on
> > Desktop 2. This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.
> >
> > Anne
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> Hi Anne
> How to do this? If I right-click on the desktop and select "Desktop
> Settings" it appears that I can only choose one image for all desktops.
> This functionality of having an image for each desktop from KDE 3.x is the
> only thing that I (really!!!) miss in KDE 4.x. I really do think that KDE
> 4 is now much superiour to KDE 3 excepting the (perhaps minor issue for the
> KDE devs) of having multiple desktop images to match the prefered
> use/purpose for that desktop. No other element in KDE 4 makes me wish to
> regress back to the previous system (except the use of "kyum" which upon
> installation pulls in many elements from KDE 3...)
> Has kyum been ported to KDE 4? How to enable selecting an image for each
> desktop configured?
> /fennix
> PS: I think that it would be better stated that there are 2 issues for me:
> (1) Enabling selecting a "unique" image for each of my desktops.
See my reply to Gene. I'll add it to UserBase today if no-one else has done
it.
> (2)
> Installing kyum for upgrading my current Fedora installation without
> pulling in many elements/libraries of KDE3 to support this application.
> I know that I should post this to the KDE.org/brainstorm link you had
> posted previously...but I feel that if this is a majour issue then many
> must have already complained before now so if no-one has said much then
> these are not majour issues to the general KDE community... (Running KDE
> 4.3.00 currently...)
> /fennix
Where are you finding kyum? Searching my repos doesn't find it. If you are
installing a KDE 3 app it will have to call in KDE3 libraries - I don't see
any way around that.
Anne
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