Wallpaper Cleanup

Ryan Lerch rlerch at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 17:04:47 UTC 2015


On 01/20/2015 11:03 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been working on a feature proposal for a while now to propose
>> cleaning up the wallpapers that we present to the user by default in
>> Workstation. It has been on the agenda for the last few meetings, but we
>> have run out of time in those meetings :(
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WallpapersCleanup
>>
>> Basically, the proposal is to clean out the wallpapers that we currently
>> present to the user, and just show:
>>
>> 1. The default fedora wallpaper for the release (the one created by the
>> Fedora Design Team)
>> 2. The default wallpaper for the upstream desktop release (e.g. the default
>> GNOME wallpaper for the release of GNOME being shipped)
>> 3. A new set of 15 alternative default wallpapers chosen from the past
>> Fedora supplemental wallpapers. The supplemental wallpapers are a set of
>> wallpapers (that change every release) that are included in the repos for
>> people to install and use. The idea here would be to choose 15 of the best
>> from all past supplemental wallpaper packages to be included by default.
> Semi related we should do something about this ever changing
> wallpapers ... hit me multiple times that after an upgrade I end up
> with a white wallpaper because the file was removed.  Not that big of
> an issue but it looks bad.
Hmmm, i have never had this issue. Usually the package that supplies 
release n-1 stays around for release n for me. The upgrade shouldnt 
remove previously installed packages should it?

cheers,
ryanlerch


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