Bug#623519: gnome-control-center: existing wallpapers stopped working on upgrade to 3.x (move to URIs)

[Jon Dowland]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:50:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> reassign 623519 gsettings-desktop-schemas
> forwarded 623519 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647039
> thanks
> 
> Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 21:52 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : 
> > The only issue I can report so far is that my wallpaper
> > failed to work upon starting GNOME3: Instead I got a black
> > background.
> 
> Good catch. This was caused by a wrong conversion script:
> picture-uri = /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> 
> Yeah sure, expect an uri, find a filename. Way to go.
> 
> Since the conversion scripts are not able to add the missing “file:///”
> in the front, upstream chose to no longer migrate this setting in 3.0.1.
> I think we could do better by still supporting old-style filenames in
> the new settings, but I don’t know if it’s worth the effort.

Sigh. It's little bumps in the road like this that will seem twice as big to
people who aren't keen on GNOME3 anyway, and since upstream are fighting a
battle to convince people all is great, I'm surprise at their attitude.  Ah
well.  I think you debian-gnome folks have got enough to do already ☺


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Jon Dowland