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nautilus-wallpaper package

nautilus-wallpaper not working in hardy heron after update to nautilus-2.21.6

Bug #186938 reported by mcsekar
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nautilus-wallpaper (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus-wallpaper

In an up to date i386 Hardy Heron, the nautilus-wallpaper extension does not add a "Set as Wallpaper" entry to the context menu in nautilus. It was working perfectly when I was using nautilus-2.20.x in Hardy Heron. But, 4 or 6 days ago, I updated to nautilus-2.21.6 in Hardy Heron, and since then this nautilus-wallpaper is not adding the "Set as Wallpaper" entry to the context menu in nautilus.

The interesting thing is that the nautilus-open-terminal extension was also not adding a "Open in Terminal" entry to the context menu in nautilus, but two days ago, there was an update to nautilus-open-terminal, and since then I can see "Open in Terminal" in the context menu.
Hence, as I do not know much, I am assuming the bug is in nautilus-wallpaper.

There is Bug #144208 which is the same as this, but that is about Gutsy, and it was reported in Sep 2007 and was fixed in Sep 2007. So, I am surprised that this bug has resurfaced.

The versions are:
nautilus-wallpaper - 0.1-0ubuntu2
nautilus - 1:2.21.6-0ubuntu2
libnautilus-extension1 - 1:2.21.6-0ubuntu2

Another thing to mention is that some other extensions to nautilus like nautilus-image-converter also do not work.

Thank you.

Tags: packaging
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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote :

Thanks for your report. The cause of various extensions not working with Nautilus is the switch to gvfs (see http://stompbox.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/gvfs-enabled-na.html). nautilus-wallpaper seems unmaintained, so someone needs to come up with a patch that will make it work with the gio API.

Changed in nautilus-wallpaper:
status: New → Confirmed
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mcsekar (mcsekhar) wrote :

Thanks for your response. I will wait for someone to fix this.

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

libnautilus-wallpaper.so which is provided by the nautilus-wallpaper package is found in /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0. However, Nautilus looks in /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0. Putting a symlink in extensions-2.0 pointing to the so file enables the plugin to work without issue. In other words the plugin is in working order, there's only a packaging problem.

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

I've added a few patches to make it compile, and also to make the plugin install into /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0 instead of extensions-1.0. The debdiff is attached, and I've just uploaded it to my ppa at http://edge.launchpad.net/~hyperair/+archive. Debs should be up shortly.

Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)
Changed in nautilus-wallpaper:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

Sorry wrong command used for the debdiff. The correct one is attached.

Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)
Changed in nautilus-wallpaper:
assignee: desktop-bugs → themuso
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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

Bump. Is there any hope for this fix to make it into the repo before the final release of Hardy arrives?

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StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote :

Delegating FinalFreeze exception request to desktop team... your call ;).

(unsubscribing motu-release therefore)

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

Updated debdiff to condense new changelog entries to just one.

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

Uhh uploaded wrong file sorry.

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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

Hi,

Please note that the version number in the last debdiff is not
one that we want in Ubuntu, so it should be fixed up before
upload.

Thanks,

James

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote :

Sorry. I just debdiff'd the dsc I was going to upload to my PPA. Attached is one with the version "0.1-0ubuntu3".

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

desktop team approved, feel free to upload the changes

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

new revision uploaded

Changed in nautilus-wallpaper:
assignee: themuso → nobody
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus-wallpaper - 0.1-0ubuntu3

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nautilus-wallpaper (0.1-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_add-gconf-pkgconfig.dpatch:
    - Add gconf-2.0 pkg-config flags so it can compile
  * debian/patches/03_move-to-extensions-2.0.dpatch:
    - Change libdir to /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0 in order to make it
      work with the new Nautilus (LP: #186938)
  * debian/control:
    - Added libgconf2-dev to build-depends
  * debian/rules:
    - Change install: rule to remove files from extensions-2.0 instead of extensions-1.0.

 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:01:33 +0800

Changed in nautilus-wallpaper:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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