Bug 983800
| Summary: | with GNOME Shell "Set as wallpaper" does not work | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Christopher Beland <beland> |
| Component: | geeqie | Assignee: | Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 21 | CC: | bugs.michael, mattdm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-12-02 02:49:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Christopher Beland
2013-07-12 02:04:35 UTC
> Nothing happens
With GNOME Shell. The feature still works with other desktop environments/window managers.
In case you want to debug it -> geeqie/src/image.c void image_to_root_window(…)
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1) install package "WindowMaker"
2) log out
3) log into a Window Maker session
4) run GNOME Shell's default image viewer "shotwell" and use "Set as Desktop Background" on some image file
It chokes a bit and fails without any error message. Desktop background remains unchanged.
Next try image viewer Eye of Gnome ("eog") in Window Maker. It claims it has set the background, but that's not true as the background is the unchanged Fedora wallpaper. Curiously, its desktop background manager tool believes otherwise and shows the activated image.
Now do the same with Geeqie. It works. Same applies to package "openbox" instead of "WindowMaker".
I'm kind of inclined to just patch the "set as wallpaper" menu item out of geeqie for Fedora, until such time as someone is interested in writing a patch to make it work right in GNOME. At the worst-case, that would only cripple Geeqie for other users, who don't use GNOME Shell but some other DE/WM where the feature still works -- I didn't check every possible combination. The problems for some image viewers started when some DE's took over handling the desktop background. If there were a reusable library API to set the desktop background for *any* DE/WM, that would be real progress. Reinventing the wheel in a dozen image viewers and image display tools is the wrong way. [...] WRT disabling features, in the same way one could also try to blacklist the gdk-pixbuf loader for .xcf files, although it seems to work for basic .xcf files. I've reopened the tickets that have not been responded to at all and have been closed by the EOL script: bug 1144090 bug 1060497 This message is a reminder that Fedora 21 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 21. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '21'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 21 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 21 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-12-01. Fedora 21 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |