[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Dev]Default directory for wallpapers

Sat Apr 30 18:08:01 CEST 2011

On 30 April 2011 00:32, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at 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
+