Bug#694011: desktop-base: problem after updating from Squeeze to Wheezy

[Eshat Cakar <info@eshat.de>]

tag 694011 pending
thanks

Am Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:04:24 +0400
schrieb Boris Pek <tehnick-8@mail.ru>:

> >> $ grep Theme= /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
> >> Theme=/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/joy
> > 
> > This shouldn't be there. Did you manually change this?
> > It should be "Theme=@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@".
> 
> I am not sure that you call "manually". I do not use text editor to
> change that theme, but use standard program "KDE System Settings".
> And it updates related configuration files.

Ok, so that is the Problem. By changing it via systemsettings, you
replaced the "@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@" with an hardlink to
spacefun, which was not available after upgrading to wheezy.
So this should only affects a few users.

> Do you think this bug should be reassigned to package systemsettings?

No, it's kdm/desktop-base fault.

> I still believe that KDM should check if current theme exist. If it
> is not found KDM may be launched with default theme. Any objections?

Indeed, I agree. I'll see if I can fix this.

Cheers

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