Bug 372594 - no wallpaper menu for a fresh new .config directory
Summary: no wallpaper menu for a fresh new .config directory
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Image Wallpaper (show other bugs)
Version: 5.8.3
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Marco Martin
URL:
Keywords:
: 372610 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-11-17 16:21 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified: 2016-11-20 19:32 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description Toralf Förster 2016-11-17 16:21:41 UTC
I logged out, renamed ~/.config to ~/.config.old and logged in.
I'm unable now to choose any wallpaper.
qt 5.6.2 + kf 5.28 + plasma 5.8.3 + apps 16.08.3 

The system is a Gentoo stable desktop
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2016-11-18 02:49:02 UTC
According to other reports I have seen, this issue is caused by the KF5 5.28 update.
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2016-11-18 10:18:12 UTC
What do you mean by "unable to choose"? 

Can you open the dialog and "wallpaper type" is empty?
Comment 3 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-11-18 10:51:44 UTC
Maybe caused by the switch to json metadata and this commit missing in 5.8.3?
https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=bfb91f9de153d53a30d82ad6ce0d6732da4ab367

We had to add that to our plasma-workspace 5.8.3 package in openSUSE to make adding panels work again after the update to Frameworks 5.28.
Haven't tried to change the wallpaper though, so I don't know if that had problems too...
Comment 4 Nikos Chantziaras 2016-11-18 13:27:37 UTC
Changing desktop layout from "Desktop" to "Folder View" is also not possible. You can select it, but "Apply" (or "OK") do nothing. The desktop settings dialog ignores all settings changes.
Comment 5 Marco Martin 2016-11-18 14:54:42 UTC
Git commit e7861d979c71815a614f2baf0b3d25f329fadef0 by Marco Martin.
Committed on 18/11/2016 at 14:51.
Pushed by mart into branch 'master'.

keep installing metadata.desktop

there are too many existing users that rely on existence of metadata.desktop,
so keep installing it, even if with new plasma-workspace releases only the
metadata.json would be used. the framework should never change its behavior
wrt old software, even if it was doing something in a sense wrong
CCMAIL:	Aleix Pol Gonzalez <aleixpol@kde.org>

M  +0    -1    KF5PackageMacros.cmake

http://commits.kde.org/kpackage/e7861d979c71815a614f2baf0b3d25f329fadef0
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2016-11-18 19:13:32 UTC
*** Bug 372610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Nikos Chantziaras 2016-11-19 06:09:12 UTC
This bug was closed as "FIXED". So what do I do? There's no update in portage or anything.
Comment 8 Nikos Chantziaras 2016-11-19 06:34:19 UTC
I've hit a slow mirror. I updated again, and there was an update to kpackage, which applies the patch.

It doesn't fix anything. The same issues are still there.

Please reopen this bug.
Comment 9 Bhushan Shah 2016-11-19 07:12:48 UTC
(In reply to Nikos Chantziaras from comment #8)
> I've hit a slow mirror. I updated again, and there was an update to
> kpackage, which applies the patch.
> 
> It doesn't fix anything. The same issues are still there.

With that commit in, you also need to rebuild plasma-workspace to fix the issue. Alternatively you can update plasma-workspace to latest 5.8 branch too
Comment 10 Marax Faraii 2016-11-19 07:18:42 UTC
I rebuild kde-plasma/plasma-workspace after upgrading kde-frameworks/kpackage and I can confirm it works.
Comment 11 Nikos Chantziaras 2016-11-19 07:22:24 UTC
Thanks.

I think it might be a good idea to revbump plasma-workspace though.
Comment 12 stupor_scurvy343 2016-11-19 09:30:33 UTC
(In reply to Nikos Chantziaras from comment #7)
> This bug was closed as "FIXED". So what do I do? There's no update in
> portage or anything.

(In reply to Nikos Chantziaras from comment #8)
> I've hit a slow mirror. I updated again, and there was an update to
> kpackage, which applies the patch.
> 
> It doesn't fix anything. The same issues are still there.
> 
> Please reopen this bug.

(In reply to Nikos Chantziaras from comment #11)
> I think it might be a good idea to revbump plasma-workspace though.

The bug is resolved as fixed because this is the KDE bugtracker and the bugfix has been committed to the appropriate KDE repository.

Please complain to your distribution for updated packages, although they should already be aware as a mail regarding this issue has already been sent out.
Comment 13 Nikos Chantziaras 2016-11-19 09:31:44 UTC
Oops, I thought this is the Gentoo bugzilla :-P

Sorry. Didn't pay attention to the URL.