Bug 484871

Summary:	Make it easier to revert to old default wallpaper after a Plasma upgrade
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	John Veness <john.kde>
Component:	Image & Slideshow wallpaper plugins	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdedev, nate, notmart, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.0.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description John Veness 2024-04-01 14:39:53 UTC

SUMMARY
A recent openSUSE Tumbleweed upgrade changed from Plasma 5.27 to Plasma 6.0. With that came a new wallpaper, which is fine. However, I couldn't find an easy way to revert to the previous default wallpaper.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Be running Plasma 5.27
2. Upgrade to Plasma 6.0
3. Notice wallpaper has changed
4. Right-click on Desktop and choose "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper"

OBSERVED RESULT
No entry for the previous wallpaper.

EXPECTED RESULT
An entry for the previous wallpaper.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240329
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.3
Kernel Version: 6.8.1-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ProBook 450 G4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I did eventually find the old wallpaper manually, but it was tricky! I had to search the KDE Store for "mountain" and eventually found what I think was what I had before (https://store.kde.org/p/2134894).

Note that I don't mind that the default wallpaper changes with a major Plasma upgrade. I just think there should be a mechanism in the upgrade to "backup" (probably the wrong term) the previous wallpaper during an upgrade, so it's easy to revert to it, using the normal user interface.

Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-07-30 19:54:59 UTC

It seems like it wouldn't be difficult to save the currently selected wallpaper and/or the previous default wallpaper(s) and add them to the wallpapers available after a Plasma upgrade

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2024-07-30 20:03:03 UTC

We do the old wallpapers all get added to the plasma-workspace-wallpapers package. If you're not seeing the old wallpaper, it means this package isn't installed, which means your distro isn't following https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations. You might want to talk to them about it, and ask for plasma-workspace-wallpapers to be pre-installed by default or made a mandatory dependency of plasma-workspace or something.

Comment 3 John Veness 2024-07-30 20:31:12 UTC

Thanks Nate. Installing plasma6-workspace-wallpapers did indeed bring the old wallpapers back. It's good to know this is being done from the KDE side. I've opened https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1228603 to ask if openSUSE can install that package by default.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2024-07-30 20:55:02 UTC

Great!