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Originally Posted by crashnburn
in my mind, textured backgrounds are a pointless frivolous venture :P
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Strongly disagree, and earlier in this thread, I explained in detail why, along with screenshots of my favourite textured backgrounds. They are anything
but frivolous -- I consider them a
crucial feature still missing today in Marvin, and I've been waiting for it ever since Marvin first came out back in December. It's one of the very few areas (perhaps the only area???) in which the half-dead Stanza is still superior over Marvin today.
For example, I would trade in
all the improvements in Marvin's import capabilities and Library management, for the feature of textured backgrounds. Why? Because I spend 99.99% of my time actually
reading (and annotating) books in Marvin, not importing, accessing or shuffling them around in the Library. Those are all complete trifles, to my mind, compared to the importance of page backgrounds -- something I'm staring at
all the time. I find
solid-colour backgrounds (of no matter
what colour)
dull and therefore
fatigue-inducing, which is why I can't wait to see user-customisable structured backgrounds implemented in Marvin.
