Description of problem: When new background images come late, or maintainers don't notice or aren't notified about the changes, it can cause a bit of a fire drill at Alpha release. At this release point, there is a criterion requiring the default background to be different for the new release. Ray suggested this: <halfline> so if we wanted to automate this we could move 0_org.gnome.desktop.background.fedora.gschema.override from desktop-backgrounds-gnome to fedora-release <halfline> and then have it write in the current fedora release at build time <halfline> if the backgrounds aren't ready yet the url will point to nothing of course <halfline> which will make it fall back and we'll have a background that automatically meets alpha criteria (something differen than the last release) We should consider this kind of solution, but also need to look at what this change would imply for LXDE/Xfce/others (via the -compat subpackage?), and whether a better solution for KDE would be possible as well.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle. Changing version to '25'.
Note that the release-blocking desktops at present are GNOME, KDE and Xfce. Any solution that works for those three will make us happy so far as the release process is concerned. Making things work for other desktops is great but less important.
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Let's dupe this into 1435423 ... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1435423 ***