Bug 2334125

Summary: Xfce 4.20 upgrade resulted in empty desktop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Edward <epp>
Component: xfdesktopAssignee: Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: bruno, kevin, nonamedotc
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Xfce desktop after 4.20 upgrade none

Description Edward 2024-12-25 21:05:31 UTC 
Rawhide was upgraded, which included Xfce 4.20 packages. Upon a reboot, it resulted in an empty desktop, no icons, no Trash folder.

Found a thread at the Arch Linux forums that xfdesktop 4.20.0-3 fixes this, but it also requires a specific package (libyaml) on the build host.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301899

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Rawhide upgraded Xfce 4.18 to 4.20
2.Rebooted
3.Logged in to an empty desktop.
Actual Results:  
Desktop contained no icons.

Expected Results:  
Full desktop should have appeared.
Comment 1 Edward 2024-12-25 21:06:09 UTC 
Created attachment 2063838 [details]
Xfce desktop after 4.20 upgrade
Comment 2 Edward 2024-12-25 21:07:16 UTC 
Blocks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332653
Comment 3 Edward 2024-12-25 21:09:51 UTC 
When opening an application from either the menu or panel, it creates a temporary desktop icon, which disappears when the application is closed.

The application .desktop files remain in the ~/Desktop folder.
Comment 4 Mukundan Ragavan 2024-12-26 22:49:46 UTC 
Thanks a lot for testing and filing this report.

please update rawhide to get xfdesktop package version 4.20.0-2

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=127269163


Build Configuration:
* Build desktop menu module:                    yes
* Build support for desktop icons:              yes
      Include support for file/launcher icons:  yes
* Mount notification support:                   yes
* Windowing:
      X11:                                      yes
      Wayland:                                  no


This should be fixed.
Comment 5 Edward 2024-12-27 16:02:30 UTC 
xfdesktop upgraded to 4.20.0-2 this morning and after rebooting, the icons are now on the desktop. Thank you.
Comment 6 Mukundan Ragavan 2024-12-28 02:55:05 UTC 
Thanks for the feedback.
Comment 7 Bruno Wolff III 2024-12-30 23:11:30 UTC 
I was affected by this as well and appreciate how quickly the problem got fixed, especially given the holidays. Thanks!