Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 19:26, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote: As you can see it's a jumble, each DE has a different idea of where wallpapers should go; and it becomes more confusing when the same issue is re-discussed afresh in a whole new thread, saying the same things that were said in the old one :) Is there a bug that states the problem? And can the problem be stated in a single sentence, like Wallpapers are scattered/duplicated around, because each DE has a different idea of where they should go? Romain
Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers
Op zaterdag 30 april 2011 00:32:02 schreef Donald Stewart: Currently, nearly all the artwork is stored in /usr/share/mga/* this is fine for everything apart from wallpapers as kde looks in /usr/share/wallpapers for its wallpapers. Either, all the wallpapers are moved from */mga/backgrounds to /usr/share/wallpapers, which would surely lead to issues with other desktops, kdm possibly gdm and others, kdebase4-workspace is patched to look in */mga/backgrounds which seems a little extreme, or symlinks are added between */mga/backgrounds -- /usr/share/wallpapers. What do people think? Donald schultz Stewart perhaps adding a symlink in /usr/share/wallpapers/mga that points to /usr/share/mga/backgrounds would be sufficient
Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Donald Stewart watersnowr...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, nearly all the artwork is stored in /usr/share/mga/* this is fine for everything apart from wallpapers as kde looks in /usr/share/wallpapers for its wallpapers. Either, all the wallpapers are moved from */mga/backgrounds to /usr/share/wallpapers, which would surely lead to issues with other desktops, kdm possibly gdm and others, kdebase4-workspace is patched to look in */mga/backgrounds which seems a little extreme, or symlinks are added between */mga/backgrounds -- /usr/share/wallpapers. What do people think? Donald schultz Stewart the pb is that all the WM doesn't use the same folder by default : KDE = /usr/share/wallpaper GNome = /usr/share/background and so on
Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers
On 30 April 2011 00:32, Donald Stewart watersnowr...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, nearly all the artwork is stored in /usr/share/mga/* this is fine for everything apart from wallpapers as kde looks in /usr/share/wallpapers for its wallpapers. Either, all the wallpapers are moved from */mga/backgrounds to /usr/share/wallpapers, which would surely lead to issues with other desktops, kdm possibly gdm and others, kdebase4-workspace is patched to look in */mga/backgrounds which seems a little extreme, or symlinks are added between */mga/backgrounds -- /usr/share/wallpapers. What do people think? Donald schultz Stewart First of all, no point reopening the discussion and abandoning the old thread (which you posted to previously): https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20110119/002240.html From KDE's point of view, which is a bit warped, it probably won't make any difference due to the specific dir layout KDE uses: $ ls -R /usr/share/wallpapers/Horos/ /usr/share/wallpapers/Horos/: contents/ metadata.desktop /usr/share/wallpapers/Horos/contents: images/ screenshot.png /usr/share/wallpapers/Horos/contents/images: 1280x1024.png 1600x1200.png 1920x1080.png 1920x1200.png So without finding a way to make this work for other DE's, symlinking is moot IMHO. You said: kdebase4-workspace is patched to look in */mga/backgrounds where is that patch? I grep'ed through all the -workspace package patches and found nothing about this. Besides, why would KDE have look in /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/ when it's just one file it can use, /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/default.jpg which is a symlink to the best resolution-fitting wallpaper depending on the user's monitor resolution (XFdrake creates the symlink AFAIK); IIRC KDE plasma default config in Mageia is set to use /usr/share/mga/backgrounds/default.jpg as the default wallpaper. -- Ahmad Samir
Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers
On 30 April 2011 17:09, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2011 08:57, Dexter Morgan dmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Donald Stewart watersnowr...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, nearly all the artwork is stored in /usr/share/mga/* this is fine for everything apart from wallpapers as kde looks in /usr/share/wallpapers for its wallpapers. Either, all the wallpapers are moved from */mga/backgrounds to /usr/share/wallpapers, which would surely lead to issues with other desktops, kdm possibly gdm and others, kdebase4-workspace is patched to look in */mga/backgrounds which seems a little extreme, or symlinks are added between */mga/backgrounds -- /usr/share/wallpapers. What do people think? Donald schultz Stewart the pb is that all the WM doesn't use the same folder by default : KDE = /usr/share/wallpaper GNome = /usr/share/background No, GNOME uses /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome, that's where the GNOME upstream wallpaper is: libgnome2:/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds is used by gnome-screensaver (only). and so on -- Ahmad Samir Ahmad, kdebase4 is patched is the solution. Yes it has a interesting layout of dirs, but as i recall, if you just drop an image in /usr/share/wallpapers it shows up in the plasma dialogue. And even if it is set up to use default.jpg as default, it still misses all of the other bg's in the folder and all of the extra backgrounds.
Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers
On 30 April 2011 19:05, Donald Stewart watersnowr...@gmail.com wrote: Ahmad, kdebase4 is patched is the solution. I see; the too many ',' in the sentence, confused me. Yes it has a interesting layout of dirs, but as i recall, if you just drop an image in /usr/share/wallpapers it shows up in the plasma dialogue. And even if it is set up to use default.jpg as default, it still misses all of the other bg's in the folder and all of the extra backgrounds. Before deciding what should be patched and what shouldn't, a default wallpapers location should be used (which was the whole goal of the thread I linked above). As you can see it's a jumble, each DE has a different idea of where wallpapers should go; and it becomes more confusing when the same issue is re-discussed afresh in a whole new thread, saying the same things that were said in the old one :) -- Ahmad Samir
