Official wallpapers should be chooseable outside of dark/light mode

[Oliver Smith]

Currently if you choose dark mode on 23.10 you can only use the monochrome version of the official wallpaper.

Most users will expect to be able to combine the coloured wallpaper with dark mode and this restriction of choice is not ideal. It would be good to leave that option as-is but also include independently select-able coloured and monocrhome wallpapers so users can have parity with previous releases in terms of customisation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: ubuntu-wallpapers 23.10.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-5.5-generic 6.5.0
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: none
CloudName: none
CloudPlatform: none
CloudSubPlatform: config
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 12 23:46:19 2023
Dependencies: ubuntu-wallpapers-mantic 23.10.3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-10-02 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20231001)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: ubuntu-wallpapers
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The drawback is that it would duplicate the entries in the list. Note that you can go to /usr/share/background and manually set the image as wallpaper

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sorry I'm stuck on bzr push bugs, it's been so many years since I had it working... So here's a patch.

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

> The drawback is that it would duplicate the entries in the list.

What's the purpose of the existing automatic light/dark entry if the theme never automatically changes between light and dark modes? Seems like it has half copied macOS functionality. I think we could remove the automatic entry and thus eliminate the duplication.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-wallpapers - 23.10.4

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ubuntu-wallpapers (23.10.4) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Make the default light and dark Ubuntu wallpapers manually selectable
    so you're not restricted to the automatic selection (LP: #2037967)

 -- Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:38:31 +0200