Bug 2065784

Summary: Switch to dark/light backgrounds by default (not XML animated)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component: desktop-backgroundsAssignee: Martin Sourada <martin.sourada>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 36CC: caillon+fedoraproject, caolanm, christoph.wickert, dchen, gnome-sig, luya_tfz, martin.sourada, mclasen, rstrode, sandmann, tdawson
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Fixed In Version: desktop-backgrounds-36.0.0-2.fc36 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2022-03-19 00:40:34 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Adam Williamson 2022-03-18 17:36:38 UTC 
For Fedora 36+, we want to switch to using GNOME's upstream "dark / light" mechanism for backgrounds - where you can basically specify a dark background image, and a light background image, and if you use the 'light in the day, dark at night' theme GNOME will transition between the two for you - rather than using the older "ship an XML file defining an animated transition between two images" mechanism.

The update that makes this change is in updates-testing already, but I'm filing a bug to propose it as an FE for Beta. It's not a huge deal, but since Beta's slipped again it seems worth getting it in. This setting is written to a user's profile when the user account is created and not updated after that, so right now everyone who installs F36 is getting the 'animated XML' setting, not the 'dark/light image' setting, and it won't be changed on subsequent updates even when the newer package is installed.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2022-03-18 17:38:50 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-d43d2cbe5c has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-d43d2cbe5c
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2022-03-18 23:53:39 UTC 
+3 in https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/679 , marking accepted.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2022-03-19 00:40:34 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-d43d2cbe5c has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.