291525 - "Set as wallpaper" function unreliable across window managers

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Nilson Cain]

The "set as wallpaper" item in Firefox's context menu for images does not work
with many X window managers. There are several methods in place for setting
wallpapers, and I feel that the variety is too wide to be able to offer such a
feature on Linux or other simlar operating systems.

Gnome sets the wallpaper differently than KDE, while in Fluxbox, the wallpaper
is set yet another way.

I use XFCE 4, and the "set as wallpaper" function does not work for me.

Comment 1

[Nilson Cain]

For clarification, I think that the feature should be removed altogether on X11
platforms because of the complexity involved in detecting which window manager
is running, etc.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

That's not going to happen.  Maybe a check to see if it is GNOME/Metacity, and
not show it otherwise.

Ripping out a feature that works on our target *nix platform because it doesn't
work on all of the fragments of the Linux desktop just isn't going to happen, sorry.

Comment 3

[Nilson Cain]

But can it be checked easily? I mean, if so, that's fine too.

Comment 4

[Nilson Cain]

I do not see "Set as Wallpaper" in the context menu in my Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U;
Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5


Whats up?

Comment 5

[dum]

I was having the same problem, to set as wallpaper... under the KDE desktop.
It's doing nothing...