Re: New library wallpaper.el pushed to master

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:52:39 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> BTW, what about actions usually taken to modify the wallpaper such as
> >> scaling, cropping, and offsets?  Shouldn't wallpaper-set take several
> >> arguments to specify those?
> >
> > No, I think it should just use the image.  If the user wants to modify
> > the image, he/she can do that using "other means", including the
> > lately introduced 'image-crop' command.  There's no reason to make
> > this simple facility understand too much about images and their
> > formats.
> 
> I guess what Po Lu had in mind was supporting options such as the
> following, from the "feh" man page:

Slippery slope alert!  These options are likely to vary or even fail
to exist in other commands or methods that we want to support in
wallpaper.el, in which case we are introducing behavioral differences
between platforms for now good reason.