Bug 290571

Summary: kdesktop and symlink default wallpaper
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sebastian Vahl <fedora>
Component: kde-settingsAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Sebastian Vahl 2007-09-14 10:27:28 UTC
Description of problem:
The default wallpaper is now (or atm) only a symlink from
/usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.jpg to
/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/am00.png. kdesktop seems to have problems with
this: The wallpapaper is not shown unless you set it directly to am00.jpg


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.5.7-14.fc8
fedora-logos-7.92.0-4.fc8
desktop-backgrounds-basic-7.92-4
gnome-backgrounds-2.18.3-2.fc8


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login into a new user account 

or

1. Set wallpaper to /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.jpg
  
Actual results:

No wallpaper is shown.


Expected results:

Wallpaper should be displayed.


Additional info:
Maybe we should talk to the art people in putting the wallpaper in fedora-logos
again. With this we could also avoid pulling in desktop-backgrounds-basic which
would save some space on the livecd (FYI: I've missed this on F8Test2).

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2007-09-14 15:03:01 UTC
Is this really a symlink from a .jpg to a .png? If so, this is probably what 
confuses kdesktop.

Comment 2 Sebastian Vahl 2007-09-14 22:18:38 UTC
Sorry, my fault. It's png to png:
# ls -l /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 10. Sep 
17:14 /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png -> ../infinity/am00.png


Comment 3 Sebastian Vahl 2007-09-18 18:09:41 UTC
Uh. It seems that this is not so easy. As discussed in todays kde sig meeting
I've tried to replace the symlink with a hardlink - but the behaviour is the
same. So I've done some further tests (with the normal symlink again).

# First try
1. kcmshell background
2. Click on the "open file dialog" to choose another wallpaper
3. Click on default.png
4. Click on preview and wait some seconds
-> The wallpaper would be displayed in the preview
5. Click on Ok
6. In the main screen click on "Apply" or "Ok"
-> The wallpaper wouldn't be displayed

# Second try
1. kcmshell background
2. Click on the "open file dialog" to choose another wallpaper
3. Click on default-5_4.png
4. Click on Ok.
5. In the main screen click on "Apply" or "Ok"
-> The wallpaper would be displayed!

The curious thing here is, that default-5_4.png is also a symlink to the same
am00.png:
# ls -l images/default-5_4.png 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 10. Sep 17:14 images/default-5_4.png -> ../infinity/am00.png

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2007-09-18 18:27:27 UTC
Maybe it's the name default.png which is the problem?

Comment 5 Sebastian Vahl 2007-09-19 00:38:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Maybe it's the name default.png which is the problem?

Seems so. If I just rename default.png to default.jpg (without converting the
png) the wallpaper would be displayed.


Comment 6 Sebastian Vahl 2007-09-26 15:09:02 UTC
I don't know if something has changed to the wallpaper, but when I change the
(now) wrong entry in /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config
from default.jpg to default.png the wallpaper would be displayed.

Someone should recheck this if there isn't another problem and we should get an
updated kde-settings package in test3. So I've re-assigned this package against
kde-settings and set priority to urgent.




Comment 7 Sebastian Vahl 2007-09-26 15:21:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> I don't know if something has changed to the wallpaper, but when I change the
> (now) wrong entry in /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config
> from default.jpg to default.png the wallpaper would be displayed.

I meant this one in
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdesktoprc:

Wallpaper=/usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.jpg

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2007-09-26 17:49:56 UTC
* Wed Sep 26 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 3.5-31
- kdesktoprc: [Desktop0] Wallpaper=/usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png
  (#290571)
- kopeterc: [ContactList] SmoothScrolling=false