Comment 50 for bug 1159430

waouh, quite some comments on that bug, I just ran accross it while looking at the nautilus update for saucy...

So it seems to get that fixed we need:

- the new nautilus (being worked)

- have gnome-settings-daemon's background plugin, to drop its checks that make it bail out if nautilus renders the background (I've a patch for that)

- have compiz deal nicely with rgba desktop windows (Sam is looking at it)

- the themes update (seems to be in already)

Thanks everyone for the work on those issues, it seems like we are in a good path to get things resolved and the new version in the archive this cycle.

@Adam: you asked about the plan, I think we will do that:

- upload nautilus 3.8 soon, with the desktop changes reverted temporary (so we can get the new version without breaking anything)

- work on getting the issues listed earlier resolved

- drop the nautilus patch and let either compiz or gnome-settings-daemon display the background.

I think I would prefer g-s-d background rendering to be enabled as a fallback in any case, even if we have a working compiz plugin, since it has been proved hard to make sure new plugins get activated/added to the user config on upgrade... we also know that the g-s-d codepaths have been tested and support all the options from the control center. (we will need to add back that code to g-s-d 3.8 though, but that should be an easy patch, just add back the directory). Over time unity will likely to the wallpaper rendering anyway, then we can stop patch g-s-d