Desktop Settings NOW Configure Desktop

[NoWorries]

I always enjoyed the options provided by Desktop Settings as shown below:



This allowed many options for how you wanted your desktop background to look.

After the latest updates I now have a minimalist Configure Desktop which provides two options, both of which do not work.



As I am on the neon stable option, I am starting to wonder if I should have chosen the User Edition if this is what the stable provides.

[vinnywright]

to fix you wallpaper selection in desktop settings copy and paste this

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=image


Type=Service
ServiceTypes=Plasma/Wallpaper
Icon=preferences-desktop-wallpaper
X-Plasma-MainScript=ui/main.qml
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=Marco Martin
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=mart@kde.org
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=org.kde.image
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=1.0
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website=http://kde.org/
X-KDE-PluginInfo-License=LGPL
X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=true

in a text file named "metadata.desktop" place the metadata.desktop in /usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,you will have the wallpaper setting back in desktop settings

the metadata.json that is in their now dose not get read correctly.

I edited the metadata.desktop from the org.kde.hunyango to get this and took out all the other lang's ,,,,,lazy

the rest of the "org.kde.<whatevers> can be fixed in the same way ,,,,,,,,,IE:

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers$ ls
org.kde.color  org.kde.haenau  org.kde.hunyango  org.kde.image  org.kde.slideshow

and

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~/.local/share/plasma/wallpapers$ ls
org.kde.video  org.kde.video.tar.gz

but of course this one was not touched by the (not working it seams) switch to .json files


VINNY

[NoWorries]

You certainly did a great job at getting your Configure Desktop to work for you.

I have taken a different approach because of advice given acheron relating to my problem with Broken Packages. The advice was to change to the Neon Unstable option. Doing this fixed the package problem and also fixed the Configure Desktop.

Because this change also raised another problem with Kontact, I decided to install neon-useredition-20161103-1018-amd64.iso and all is now working very well. You can find more details at https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...180#post395180.