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).
Is this really a symlink from a .jpg to a .png? If so, this is probably what confuses kdesktop.
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
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
Maybe it's the name default.png which is the problem?
(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.
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.
(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
* 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