Bug#690731: desktop-base: Please use alternatives for KDE wallpaper configuration

[Ulrich Hansen <uhansen@mainz-online.de>]

Package: desktop-base
Version: 7.0.3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,

desktop-base uses the script 

/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/init/10-desktop-base.js

to configure the KDE wallpaper for new users by writing the wallpaper into $HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc.

Instead of pointing to the symlink /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background, which is configured through the alternatives system, the script configures the wallpaper joy directly by the line

    a[i].writeConfig('wallpaper', 'joy')                //change this in wheezy+1

This leads to the problem that the KDE wallpaper will not change if I configure another background via update-alternatives.

I suggest to change the line above to:

    a[i].writeConfig('wallpaper', '/usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background')

so $HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc will point to "desktop-background" like it already did in Squeeze. This makes the KDE wallpaper configurable via update-alternatives and also has the advantage that nothing has to be changed in wheezy+1 ;-)

As "desktop-background" points to joy by default the user-experience will stay the same.

Of course I have tested the suggested solution and it worked for me. 

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages desktop-base depends on:
ii  dpkg             1.16.8
ii  librsvg2-common  2.36.1-1

desktop-base recommends no packages.

Versions of packages desktop-base suggests:
pn  gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 | wmaker  <none>

-- no debconf information