Nuancier is a Python Flask voting application for the supplementary wallpapers included in Fedora releases. This season, I’m working with awesome mentors Pierre-Yves Chibon & Ralph Bean to solve the design constraint that doesn’t let users with multi-monitor setup to take advantage of these high resolution wallpapers such that they can set different parts of the wallpaper on different monitors without breaking its continuity. GNOME Shell, my favourite desktop environment and so does Fedora’s, just allows to set different images on different screens but it can’t split a single large resolution wallpaper to be displayed continuously on multiple screens of same resolution, let alone different resolutions, like
Now, this wallpaper has been carefully split by the user according to its multi-monitor setup. So, a download widget will be created with multiple cropping windows like
such that users can easily segment & download parts of the wallpaper in multiple sizes without compromising the continuity of the image across various different or same sized monitors. Moreover this solution doesn’t even require the wallpapers to be curated for multi-monitor.
After reading the documentation & exploring the code, I have been tinkering with different ways to crop the image locally using JavaScript, HTML Canvas or jQuery plugin. I’ll soon start working on the download widget template.
Why the work is not done at the GNOME level to benefit to all users, and not only those from Fedora ?
Actually this will benefit a larger audience, irrespective of their desktop environment or operating system, as anyone can grab the wallpapers from https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/election/3/ even without a FAS account.