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I get this warning when trying to build with -j >1

Thanks!

At 6:03 PM today, using the time-based version of Fedora 38's default wallpaper, my wallpaper abruptly transitioned from light to almost pure dark. I thought it was a GNOME bug until I noticed that if you look really closely, you can see very faint clouds and dots:

Hopefully there's an obvious problem with the animation. If not, I'd recommend removing the time-based version.

Can you please add a symlink /usr/share/backgrounds/default.xml
which links to /usr/share/backgrounds/f32/default/f32.xml

ln -s /usr/share/backgrounds/f32/default/f32.xml /usr/share/backgrounds/default.xml 

MATE desktop use a gsettings key to define the default fedora background.

[org.mate.background]
picture-filename='/usr/share/backgrounds/f32/default/f32.xml'

As you can see because of the f32 in directory i have to update every release the gesetting key to match the new default background.
For this reason the mate-compiz f32 spin will use the f31 background, because we are in beta freeze.
So, adding a symlink /usr/share/backgrounds/default.xml without a fedora release number would help me a lot. In result i don't have to edit the gsettings key every release.
I am sure that is helpful for other desktops too.

Thank you

For some reason the processing of the wallpaper includes indexing colors to 8bit. Not 8bit per channel, but 8bit indexed color with Floyd Steinberg dithering. Not only does this not result in smaller filesize, the dithering doesn't make the crazy color banding disappear either.

It installs broken links for files under /usr/share/wallpapers/F37_light-blue/contents/images/:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1024x600.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1024x768.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1152x720.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1152x864.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1200x900.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1280x1024.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1280x720.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1280x768.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1280x800.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1280x960.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1366x768.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1440x1080.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1440x900.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1600x1200.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1600x1280.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1680x1050.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1920x1080.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1920x1200.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 1920x1440.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 2048x1536.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 2160x1440.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 2304x1440.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 2560x1440.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 2560x1600.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 2960x1440.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 3000x2000.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 3200x1800.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 3440x1440.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 3840x2160.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 640x480.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 800x480.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 oct 22 23:37 800x600.png -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/extras/light-blue.png

Originally posted by @pacho2 in #43 (comment)

In Budgie Control Center, the night wallpaper does not show up as it is listed as filename-dark (presumably for GNOME Control Center's light vs dark selection) rather than having a dedicated wallpaper entry in the gnome-backgrounds-f38.xml

Could we either:

1. Get it added as a wallpaper entry in gnome-backgrounds-f38.xml so it shows up separately
2. Alternatively have a f38-backgrounds-budgie that installs an f38-budgie.xml in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties that has the dark image. This would depend on f38-backgrounds-gnome to pull in the "day" image as well.

I'd be open to providing a PR to add either option, I just imagine someone else would be doing the release + package update that includes the desired subpackage.

Doing either will be beneficial to the Fedora Budgie Spin. The night wallpaper could then be selected by the end user and I could do the work of updating budgie-desktop-defaults to have a f38 subpackage that requires the f38-backgrounds-budgie and sets the night backgrounds as the default (which ties in well with defaulting to dark theme). Otherwise I'll just be shipping F38 Budgie Spin with a wallpaper from budgie-backgrounds (which is the current situation).

As part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SPDX_Licenses_Phase_1
I wanted to check what SPDX string will be for this package. Currently, the spec file uses: CC-BY-SA. Which is ambiguous:

 $ license-fedora2spdx 'CC-BY-SA'
Warning: more options on how to interpret CC-BY-SA. Possible options: ['CC-BY-SA-4.0', 'CC-BY-SA-3.0', 'CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE', 'CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT', 'CC-BY-SA-2.5', 'CC-BY-SA-2.1-JP', 'CC-BY-SA-2.0', 'CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK', 'CC-BY-SA-1.0']
{{pick CC-BY-SA choice}}

Looking at this project and the code - it seems that the correct one will be 'CC-BY-SA-4.0'. But I am puzzled by the presence of:

• CC-BY-4.0
• CC0-1.0
• Free-Art-1.3

Is anything licensed under this license? If not, should these files be present here? If yes, should the license be changed?

Update 32.2.2 fixed the problem with missing wallpaper by default, thanks. But now you can see not only the F32 animated wallpaper, but also separately dawn, day etc. Is it not more appropriate to do as in Adwaita animated wallpaper, when only the choice of animation itself is visible, but not its frames separately?

In Workstation we show the Fedora logo over the background, using a gnome-shell extension. This is what it looks like in F38:

As you can see, the legibility is fairly low. Not a good look.

This issue is only present when using the light UI style and wallpaper. When the dark style is used, the contrast is fine:

In the comment it says:
<!-- This animation will start at 7 AM. -->
But starttime hour is set to 00:
<hour>00</hour>

The readme says to wget https://github.com/fedoradesign/backgrounds/releases/download/v35.0.1/f35-backgrounds-35.0.1-1.f35.src.rpm, but that link returns 404

So, this seems pretty bizarre. In this ('upstream') repo we have the file default/fXX-metadata.desktop - currently https://github.com/fedoradesign/backgrounds/blob/master/default/f31-metadata.desktop . In the 'downstream' package repository we have an almost-identical fXX-metadata.desktop file - currently https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/f31-backgrounds/blob/master/f/f31-metadata.desktop . They are nearly the same, except the section names in the downstream file all start with X- while the ones in the upstream file don't.

In the end, both files wind up in the f31-backgrounds-kde package, but in different places. The 'upstream' file winds up as /usr/share/wallpapers/F31/metadata.desktop. The downstream file winds up as /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/F31/metadata.desktop. This of course means we have twice as many chances to get something wrong when bumping from release to release, as someone has to remember to change all the numbers in both files.

Why are things like this? This seems bad. :)

Previous releases all include a .tar.xz archive, which was missing in https://github.com/fedoradesign/backgrounds/releases/tag/v38.0.1

After updating to f32-backgrounds-32.1.4, the f32 default bg option disappeared from the selection grid. This is with GNOME de. If you select some other bg, then it's not possible to change back to the default f32 one, it's gone.

Downgrading the bg packages brings the f32 default bg back to the selection.

All these links end up broken:

# ls -l /usr/share/wallpapers/F37/contents/images_dark/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1024x600.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1024x768.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1152x720.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1152x864.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1200x900.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1280x1024.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1280x720.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1280x768.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1280x800.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1280x960.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1366x768.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1440x1080.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1440x900.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1600x1200.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1600x1280.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1680x1050.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1920x1080.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1920x1200.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1920x1280.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 1920x1440.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 2048x1536.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 2160x1440.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 2304x1440.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 2560x1440.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 2560x1600.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 2960x1440.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 3000x2000.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 3200x1800.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 3440x1440.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 3840x2160.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 640x480.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 800x480.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 oct  2 11:04 800x600.webp -> ../../../../backgrounds/f37/default/f37-02-night.webp

Hello,

When installing this new version I get links in /usr/share/wallpapers/F32/contents/images/ pointing to nothing. It seems they point to ../../backgrounds/f32/default/f32.png , but f32.png is installed under two levels upper -> ../../../../backgrounds/

Thanks

Disclaimer: This is all my personal opinion.

I feel that the current background for F35 is not very deep and it's too chaotic and strange to be a Fedora background. The colors and patterns seem off, and the coloring and lighting do not match with the look of the rest of the Fedora Project or with any of the previous backgrounds. I understand the need to innovate with new backgrounds, but all the backgrounds should still follow the same simple philosophy: simple, deep, and impactful.

I think that the pattern that the background adopts is too chaotic and strange. The pattern that the background follows is too curvy as well. It does not look orderly or simplistic whatsoever. The backgrounds that have been in other Fedora releases have always been simple and deep. Fedora backgrounds typically follow a very simple pattern that is then expanded and given depth and color. This background simply looks like someone went into GIMP, rendered a random fractal from the preset fractals, applied some color work, and called it a day. It does not look like deep, stunning, or impressive.

The TL;DR is that the current background is an eyesore to look at.

To fix it, I suggest taking inspiration from other Fedora releases. Also, at the pagure page for the background, there are some amazing backgrounds that don't have anything to do with the strange 'fractal' look. Two of the backgrounds that have caught my attention are this concept art made by riecatnor and this render.

If using an alternate background style is not viable, I suggest making the background darker and more blue or to use a more complicated render like this one. I would also suggest looking at this concept art on pagure.

All of these pieces of art share the same qualities: geometric patterns, deep colors and depths, and stunning visuals.

This is simply a suggestion and a complaint about the current background of Fedora 35. I understand if it may be too late to reconsider other background options, or if the team has already chosen this background for some mystical, wise reason. Please consider my suggestions to fix the current background

Thank you for your time!

Symbolic link /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f35-dark-blue.png points to /usr/share/xfce4/backgrounds/f35/extras/dark-blue.png which does not exist.

Thanks a lot for fixing it!

I'm currently using Fedora Silverblue 36 and after some updates the background doesn't display correctly.
Here some images

It seems to install these bogus symlinks:

>>> /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33.png -> ../default/f33-02-day.png
 * QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33-01-dawn.png points to /usr/share/xfce4/default/f33-01-dawn.png which does not exist.
>>> /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33-01-dawn.png -> ../default/f33-01-dawn.png
 * QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33-03-dusk.png points to /usr/share/xfce4/default/f33-03-dusk.png which does not exist.
>>> /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33-03-dusk.png -> ../default/f33-03-dusk.png
 * QA Notice: Symbolic link /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33-04-night.png points to /usr/share/xfce4/default/f33-04-night.png which does not exist.
>>> /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/f33-04-night.png -> ../default/f33-04-night.png

It also seems "extras" wallpaper is only a solid blue one... but that is maybe a design decision for f33 :/
Thanks a lot!

The "Time of Day" version of the F37 background does not show up in gnome settings, only the light/dark version.

I believe this is caused by it not being part of gnome-backgrounds-f37.xml. Looking at gnome-backgrounds-f36.xml I can see that the last wallpaper defined two versions.

I suppose there was a move from webp to png and the https://github.com/fedoradesign/backgrounds/blob/main/default/gnome-backgrounds-f38.xml file didn't get updated.

In my F38 system I can find the .png files on those paths, but not the webp ones.

This was initially reported upstream in GNOME Settings https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2398

After building and installing fedora-backgrounds-32.2.0 I see some symlinks pointing to non existant files as /usr/share/backgrounds/f32/extras/ambosli-sunset.jpg , /usr/share/backgrounds/f32/extras/gardens-on-the-bay-in-singapore.jpg and /usr/share/backgrounds/f32/extras/isarfrost.png seem to be missing :/

Thanks

In the current version of the F33 backgrounds, the starfield moves. In night and dawn it's more to the left, in day and dusk it's more to the right. This leads to an odd effect during the transitions, where the starfield kinda fades out at one location and fades in at the other. In the middle of the transition it's sort of duplicated with each one being very faded, like this:

is this intentional, or an oversight?