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Stage 1: Collecting ideas
- Change the listview for an iconview/grid wallpapers (filenames really don't matter for selecting a wallpaper)
- A tooltip with name and original size is sufficient (+1)
- “Open folder” as alternative to “open/add file” (many people keep their backgrounds in one folder)
- We can drop the image lists and instead go for a random picture per-folder (so the list shows the contents of a single folder).
- Why random? (I agree with the rest, showing a single folder, showing the selected picture as wallpaper)
- Start with a random picture and then follow the list, or we have to save the last shown image.
- Drop the brightness and saturation meter (xfdesktop != image-editor)
- “Hide” additional options for images in an “advanced” popup or tab (at least: auto-change every $n minutes, file-list)
- Alternatives for tabs for additional displays? GtkCombobox (pro: consistent with display-dialog, con: not obvious whether there are new/additional displays)
- Mac OS X uses individual dialogs for each monitor.
- We can bundle background styles in a single combobox:
- Drop the Auto option.
- Why?
- Auto chooses tiled if the image size is half the monitor size. Else it acts as zoomed. Who would guess that?
- Add “None” to hide the image.
- Would that expose/enable additional buttons to add/edit the background color/s?
- To avoid a regression we should always show the possibility of a gradient (horiz/vert), so the old transparent svgs works with a gradient.
- Add the single screen image options: Tiled, Centered, Stretched, Scaled, Zoomed.
- Add option “Stretched”, to span across screens, disabling options for 2nd tab. (+1)
- Possibly put a separator in the menu for these 3 groups.
- What about per-workspace wallpapers?
- A nice feature for wallpaper transformations would be a fade-over.