A few months ago, we noticed that our custom wallpapers were syncing across devices – wallpapers that were not a part of the Chrome OS wallpaper app by default were applied automagically from one Chromebook to another without our intervention. Now, a new commit on the Chromium Repositories now sheds new light on that experience. It looks like Google has, in fact, been working on custom wallpaper syncing, but they’re approaching it in a unique way.
As you can see from the above commit, instead of giving users unlimited ‘Chromebook syncing’ or something like that, the development team is opting for a much simpler approach to helping you manage your wallpapers across devices – Google Drive storage. That’s right, when and if this launches, your images will be synced using your cloud storage and count against your storage quota – the storage that is no longer free and unlimited.
