The WALLPAPER style of background painting currently
draws starting in the upper left corner of each monitor.
This isn't really correct, it means the seam between
monitors doesn't match up and edges look unbalanced if
the tile isn't a multipe of monitor size.
Really, the tiles should be centered in the middle of
the screen. (Just like when tiling a bathroom floor,
tiles should start in the center of the room.)
This commit reworks the math to make that happen.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694393
There is currently code to try to fill gradients in a
hardware native format, using #ifdefs. That optimization is
unimportant since gradients only use 2 byte buffers. It's
also incorrect because it's getting the channel order wrong
at buffer initialization time.
This commit drops the ifdefs for clarity and fixes the
channel order.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694641
Background handling in GNOME is very roundabout at the moment.
gnome-settings-daemon uses gnome-desktop to read the background from
disk into a screen-sized pixmap. It then sets the XID of that pixmap
on the _XROOTPMAP_ID root window property.
mutter puts that pixmap into a texture/actor which gnome-shell then
uses.
Having the gnome-settings-daemon detour from disk to screen means we
can't easily let the compositor handle transition effects when
switching backgrounds. Also, having the background actor be
per-screen instead of per-monitor means we may have oversized
textures in certain multihead setups.
This commit changes mutter to read backgrounds from disk itself, and
it changes backgrounds to be per-monitor.
This way background handling/compositing is left to the compositor.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682427
