Currently, the set of wallpapers that are shown to the user in Workstation by default are quite old and haven't been updated for a while. They are typically a grouping of the default Wallpapers from upstream GNOME.
It would be great to provide a smaller set of new default wallpapers in Fedora Workstation.
The idea for this proposal is to, by default in Fedora Workstation:
Discussed in 2017-Apr-24 WG meeting -- proposal is accepted with the exception of adding 15 wallpapers to the set. This makes the selector nicely formatted (3 per row): 15 selected backgrounds, plus one Fedora default, plus two GNOME default (background + lock screen).
Ryan is checking with Design team that this continues to be OK to take to next step (selection).
Metadata Update from @pfrields: - Issue assigned to ryanlerch
Updated the original comment on this thread to refelct these changes
Update from the May 8 WG meeting: the wallpapers are being collected on fedora-design-list. Ryan will split gnome-backgrounds so we can include just the Adwaita backgrounds by default.
An update on this, we have a set of wallpapers approved by the design team, and these are packaged up, and a review request is open here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1453084
The splitting up of gnome-backgrounds has been done in rawhide, with the new gnome-backgrounds-extras package:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=889855
This has taken a little longer than expected to get to this point, so if we want to get this into Fedora 26, i assume that a freeze exception will be needed.
Not sure if this is something that we want to do, or just bump this to Fedora 27.
the Package for f26 is now in the updates system here:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-workstation-backgrounds-1.1-1.fc26
Just filed a PR to add fedora-workstation-backgrounds to the default install, https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/136 and @ryanlerch did a bodhi update for the gnome-backgrounds split, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-2f1181657a
IIUC there will be a F26 common bug as a result of this change -- if a user is using a stock background from F25 gnome-backgrounds, and they upgrade to F26, their background will disappear until they reinstall gnome-backgrounds-extra. AFAIK this doesn't trigger any blocker criteria so it doesn't affect release. However, I'll note the effect on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F26_bugs for users. Thanks to @eischmann for reporting about it.
What's the intended upgrade path here? I know upgrades are hard, but we need to do better than this.
I already filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464555 and will track this; the freeze is next week but an exception should be easy to get if needed. The fix itself seems trivial.
And looks like this is in. Closing as fixed!
Metadata Update from @pfrields: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/c/759becb44f63137cf349e1b43b2c370ae472e207?branch=master
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