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Re: How can we remove and restore desktop wallpaper?

David Duncan wrote:
On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Rahulkumar Tibdewal wrote:
This will result in better compression.

Even if I have a complex desktop picture it may be invisible, and there may be other complex elements on top of it instead. Removing the desktop picture buys you nothing in that case (in my example the amount of visible desktop picture was less than 5% of the total visible area). If it probably more common to see some amount of content covering the desktop than it is to see the majority of the desktop picture.
I'm using Microsoft RDP on Windows machines over 2Mbit DSL often and have always disabled background pictures. In my experience working remote on a machine, I mostly use one application and for example closing or minimizing the window would uncover the background picture which results in noticeable hiccups.

Besides that, even complex GUI compresses a lot better than a grainy analog picture (the photo of the snow leopard would be a nightmare in that regard) ... e.g. an GUI area with a vertical color or grayscale gradient will still compress easily because a whole horizontal line is still a bunch of pixels in the same color.



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