Bug#525187: gnome-settings-daemon: Unconditionally fades in background

[Josh Triplett]

Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.26.0-2
Severity: normal

Since upgrading to 2.26.0-2, gnome-settings-daemon now fades in the
background rather than just drawing it immediately.  I find this
behavior very annoying.  As far as I can tell, no way exists to turn
this behavior off, either, short of either editing the source
(plugins/background/gsd-background-manager.c, on_bg_changed, change the
second argument of draw_background to FALSE) or turning off
gnome-settings-daemon's background handling entirely.

I'd really like to see some option I can use to disable this fading.
Actually, I'd really like to see this disabled by default, for the same
reasons that gnome-session disabled the splash screen by default, but
I'll settle for an option I can use to disable it myself.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.26.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                         2.9-7      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.12-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.80-3     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1                2.6.0-3    generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.4-1  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11         2.26.1-1   Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnomekbd3                  2.24.0-3   GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.22-5  GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.22-3  Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.1-2   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                        2:1.2.1-2  X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier12                 3.9-1      X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxxf86misc1                 1:1.0.1-3  X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver           100:100.fake Fake gnome-screensaver
ii  metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.24.0-2   A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  x11-xserver-utils           7.4+2        X server utilities

-- no debconf information