Comment 103 for bug 491521

Since you patched nautilus and gnome-desktop for RGBA, I wonder if it's possible now to tell nautilus to draw a really transparent background for the desktop, still keeping the icons, so that the wallpaper plugin of compiz can take care of drawing the wallpaper(s). This would allow different wallpapers on each workspace, still keeping desktop icons.

(Just asking hoping it's trivial, won't disturb again. )