[Design-team] Testing Goddard Backgrounds

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:21:04PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:33 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > If you've been testing the Goddard backgrounds, *please* log in at the
> > Bodhi site and leave a comment to let us know if they're working OK
> > for you in the F13 pre-release:
> > 
> > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/constantine-backgrounds-12.1.1-3.fc13,goddard-backgrounds-12.91.0-2.fc13
> > 
> > That will help us get them to stable faster so everyone can see them.
> > 
> 
> This update is to critical path package (I'm not sure why exactly is
> default desktop background package a critical one, but leave that aside
> for now) so if I understand it correctly, it apparently needs also some
> karma from rel-eng and/or QA people before it can be pushed to stable.
> Thanks to your call here it managed to have +3 karma, but I still cannot
> push to stable :(
> 
> James, as for testing the package: I'm not sure about the KDE side, but
> for Gnome it's as simple as installing goddard-backgrounds-gnome (and
> it's deps), which should (among other things) add the relevant
> background to the appearance capplet (background tab) and if you select
> it, it should work on whatever monitor you have connected.

Thanks to James for teasing out that question, and Martin for
answering it. :-)

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