user-desktop icon shows transparent desktop instead of Unity's wallpaper

[Jeremy Bícha]

With ubuntu-mono 0.0.36, the user-desktop icon as seen in the Alt-Tab switcher and in the file browser is now black instead of the Unity-themed version from 0.0.34 and earlier.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubuntu-mono 0.0.36
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 29 01:25:53 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-mono
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

One question: Why daniplanas’ icons [1] hasn’t been accepted?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/humanity-icon-theme/+bug/838256/comments/16

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

This is appearing in the Alt-tab switcher too?

Please can you post the output of:

  dpkg -l ubuntu-mono

and:

  dpkg -L ubuntu-mono | grep desktop | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev | sort | uniq -c

(Fitoschido: the point of filing this bug report is to *separate out issues*. Daniel's spent a good deal of time, and several rounds of iteration. At the time, an icon that was closer to the design specification was available, and so got used).

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I think it's actually transparent, not black.

$ dpkg -l ubuntu-mono
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii ubuntu-mono 0.0.36 Ubuntu Mono Icon theme

$ dpkg -L ubuntu-mono | grep desktop | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev | sort | uniq -c
     14 desktop.png
      3 preferences-desktop-accessibility.svg
      2 preferences-desktop-keyboard.svg
      2 preferences-desktop-locale.svg
     14 user-desktop.png

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I have this bug on both computers I use; it persists through reboots and is fixed by reverting to .34

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

It's a mismatch between the buildd, and doing a local build. I've managed to reproduce it using with a pbuild-buildd setup locally.

The background texture (from ubuntu-wallpapers) is not being picked up when rendering to PNGs.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

I thought this might be related to 'warty-final' being a .jpg named as a .png. But having added the code to work around that, it doesn't appear to be the case and there is still a difference between what the buildd environment produces and what gets built locally.

Onto Plan C. Just add the PNGs rasters that *do* get successfully built locally, and copy these in at the end of debian/rules::install.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Setting to New so that it hits Ubuntu Release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-mono - 0.0.37

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ubuntu-mono (0.0.37) oneiric; urgency=low

  [Paul Sladen]
  * Pre-caching: buildd build fails to pick up underlying raster wallpaper
    from 'ubuntu-wallpapers', leaving the icon empty unless highlighted.
    Work-around by just including the .pngs that *do* get successfully
    build locally and copying these in during debian/rules::install
    (LP: #862040)
 -- Paul Sladen <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:08:51 +0100