lucid testreport upgraded 24 march 2010 from karmic

[Rene Veerman]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Michael Bienia <michael at bienia.de> wrote:
> On 2010-03-24 09:22:45 +0200, Rene Veerman wrote:
>> - had my compiz set to put my 2 screens in a left/right, shared
>> desktop config. i had a desktop of 3360x1050 on which i put
>> single-file backgrounds that span both screens.
>> under lucid, my backgrounds (same file) are zoomed in and what's on
>> the left screen as background is duplicated on the right screen.
>
> The behaviour of some styles from the background properties has changed,
> which made several people unhappy. But the background preferences got a
> new style option: "span". When you use "spanning" then your wallpaper
> will span both screens again :)

unfortunately the karmic "span" was better than the lucid "span"
currently is; on lucid, "span" gets me black bars top and bottom for
most of my 2screen backgrounds. "stretch" gets me distorted
perspectives.

dunno what the old one did exactly, it seemed to zoom in a little bit
to get rid of the black bars, but didn't touch the width-height
proportions like lucid's "stretch" option does..

i'd appreciate yet another option to do that little zooming trick again ;)

>
>> - i'm against moving the window buttons to the left. it'll be annoying
>> AS HELL, having to change a habit that's used that often.
>
> You can change the gconf-key controlling this. This was also covered on
> the planet how to change it again (not everyone was happy with this
> decision).
>

hmm don't wanna look a gifted horse in the mouth, but it would've been
very nice if the choice was left to the end-user in a "migration menu"
or "installation menu" or something..

btw; see also; http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/498/