Public bug reported:
Hello! I'm running Jaunty, though this doesn't apply to it in
particular.
As of now, the desktop wallpaper (I believe Nautilus does it by default
in Ubuntu) is scaled with respect to the current orientation of the
screen.
This might seem logical, but today it is easy and often useful to change
the logical orientation of the screen; pivot monitors and decent RandR
support allow this.
The problem is that when one chooses a wallpaper, usually they pick
something with the aspect ratio their display in right now. If they
later rotate their display, the wallpaper will _also_ rotate, so it's
aspect ratio is inverted relative to that of their screen.
Which means that each time they rotate their screen they'll need to
change their wallpaper.
Instead, the wallpaper image should be rotated inversely from the one
for XRandR. This way its aspect ratio would always match the screen's.
(This rotation should be optional, however, for cases of wallpapers with
a fixed logical orientation, like photos of people.)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[feature request] the wallpaper orientation should keep count of RandR
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355869
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