Bug 708245

Summary:	Shotwell "Set as desktop background" action fails in Gnome Shell
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dan Scott <dan>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	eric, maxamillion, metherid, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Dan Scott 2011-05-27 01:43:57 UTC

Description of problem:

Trying to set the desktop background from Shotwell - the File->Set as Desktop Background action fails to change the Gnome Shell desktop background.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

shotwell.x86_64 0.9.2-1.fc15

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Shotwell
2. Double click on a photo of interest
3. Select File->Set as Desktop Background from the menu
  
Actual results:

Nothing happens.

Expected results:

The desktop background should change to the photo that was selected.

Additional info:

An awkward workaround from Shotwell is to select "Show in File Manager", then from the file manager select the same photo and use the context menu to select "Open with Image Viewer", then in the image viewer use the context menu to select "Set as Desktop Background" (which actually does work).

As Shotwell is one of the default applications on the Fedora dock, it would be great if this functionality worked directly.

Comment 1 Eric Gregory 2011-05-27 02:28:20 UTC

Note that a fix for this was provided in Shotwell 0.9.3:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3496

Comment 2 Dan Scott 2011-05-28 20:11:06 UTC

Just wanted to mention that 0.9.3 is currently still in updates-testing for Fedora 15 (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=245234). I downloaded it, tested it, and can confirm that this bug is indeed fixed in the updates-testing package.