One cannot have multiple wallpapers for different worspaces

[Nathanael Schilling]

Compiz, on which unity is built on, is able to paint separate wallpapers for each workspaces, using the "wallpaper" plugin, and I was successfully able to do this (keeping desktop icons) on kde4.1, and it was a very nice feature. However, nautilus has a problem painting icons on a transparent background, though patches have historically existed to fix this, and thus I have not been able to use this feature with ubuntu and gnome or unity. With unity going beyond gnome 2 in oneiric, I think it would be nice if one could paint a separate wallpaper per workspace, and possibly have a dialogue in the "appearance" section to have multiple wallpapers. I also think that this feature would be quite popular, and would set ubuntu apart from other operating systems. The main problem currently as I see it is with nautilus. As for having a multiple wallpaper chooser in the "Appearance" configuration, I would be willing to write the needed code to get this feature to be easily accessible.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #111268, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.