setting background on panel causes error

[Damian Dennis]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

when changing the appearance of a panel from a background image to the default theme and deleting of the folder that the image was in, causes an error that the folder does not exist even thou it is no longer being used.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Also, please answer these questions:
* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem and resolving this bug.

[Damian Dennis (damiandennis)]

yes
1. right click on any panel and select Properties->Background
2. set the Background Image to a image.
3. Close the Panel Properties
4. Reopen the Panel Properties->Background
5. change the Background to None (use system theme)
6. Close the Panel Properties
7. delete the folder that contained the original image for the panel background you chose.
8. reopen the Panel Properties again and you should get the following error:
The folder contents could not be displayed
Error stating file 'path to old file that is not in use' No such file or directory

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is known upstream. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545102

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Here is a patch for it. I also commented upstream about it.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is fixed in karmic. Closing the bug.