[kde-freebsd] Cannot set wallpaper on KDE 4.3.0

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 07 August 2009 03:49:34 pm Olivier Smedts wrote:
> 2009/8/7 David Johnson <david at usermode.org>:
> >>       Hello,
> >>       I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 and my ports are up to date:
> >>
> >> FreeBSD petyo.org 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 22 19:07:56
> >> EEST 2009     root at petyo.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
> >>
> >>       Yesterday I updated from KDE 4.2.4 to 4.3.0 and now I cannot set a
> >> wallpaper- from "Desktop settings" "Wallpaper type" is image and I
> >> cannot set anything as wallpaper except ".svgz" file. I want to set an
> >> JPG file as wallpaper (soft-green.jpg from KDE3). What is wrong? Do I
> >> have to rebuild anything?
> >>       Any suggestion is appreciated!
> >>       Thanks in advance!
> >
> > I had this problem too. Turns out I didn't read UPDATING. Shame on me. A
> > couple of weeks ago there was a note about graphics/jpeg, and to rebuild
> > everything dependent on it.
>
> I just noticed I've got the same problem, and reinstalled all the
> ports from scratch after the jpeg, qt4 and kde4 update. The KDE's
> wallpaper chooser says "0x0" for most images sizes, and I also lost
> the album thumbnails in amarok. I'll investigate that later, that was
> just my 2 cents to say that's maybe not related to a bad ports update.
> Maybe a problem for qt like there was for gtk and jpeg-7
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588740).
>
> > To do that, you can run:
> >
> > portupgrade -fr graphics/jpeg
> >
> > or if you want to interactively choose what to update, so you skip the
> > Qt4 and KDE4 ports you just finished building:
> >
> > portupgrade -fri graphics/jpeg
> >

I did the opposite and have a cool "Winter Track" wallpaper. When the install 
finished, I was concerned with the number of stops and restarts and did a

portupgrade -pfR kde4

It added several ports by doing this. The computer has an Intel E8500 cpu and 
did the rebuild in 7 hours.

Kent


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