Places vs. Places . . Why the differences?

[Young]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 23:42 -0500, Young wrote:
>> I'm just curious.
>>
>> In both Places from the main menu, or Places in Computer/Nautilus,
>> my NTFS partitions show up just fine. They're mounted in /media and usable.
>>
>> However, they don't show up in Places under the Change Desktop 
>> Background / Appearance Preferences > Background, then +Add Wallpaper.
> 
> Interesting, I never noticed this. Besides the Windows partitions, I
> have a few other bookmarks in Places the point to external disks, and
> none of those show up in Add Wallpaper. I would guess this is
> intentional, as external disks or Windows partitions might not be
> available all the time. Probably the Ubuntu developers wanted to make
> sure that the wallpaper does not suddenly disappear because the disk or
> partition is not available. I don't know for sure, though
> 
> 
But it doesn't block the use of images from NTFS partitions. I keep my 
desktop image, and all compressed file formats, on a separate NTFS (for 
sharing) partition. I do that for uncompressed backup, versus compressed 
for everything else.